The Privilege Embedded in your Unit of Analysis

Heather Krause
4 min readMar 4, 2022

How much water per bouquet? If we watered them all using the average required per bouquet, we’d over water one and underwater one. What’s the problem: we’re using the denominator of bouquets instead of flowers.

Defining your denominator is as important as defining your numerator.

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Heather Krause

Data scientist & statistician (one of only 150 accredited PStats worldwide). Providing data science services grounded in an equity lens. https://weallcount.com