If you're a social scientist, it's convenient to put people into different buckets for comparison as long as you don't make the mistake of thinking the aggregate represents the individual. You can never predict individual behavior and outcomes from group trends. That's a rule.
Even a category as seemingly simple as "men" needs to be broken out into multiple subcategories to avoid mistakes and misattribution.
Nowhere Girl
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