Document: JOA-3-330-183

Ecological knowledge and human social categories.

ROUGHGARDEN, J.*

Stanford University, Stanford, CA 97403 USA 1

Abstract:
Human social categories, especially in relation to sex, gender, family, and race, appear inevitably to influence what data ecologists collect and how they interpret it. Although rigorous experimental design can eliminate some types of bias, other biases remain embedded in how questions are posed to begin with. Examples from behavioral ecology are discussed, as well as approaches to make the biases explicit and to minimize their distortions.

Keywords: bias,behavioral

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This abstract is being presented at: 1:40 PM in session:
Symposium # 24: Re-thinking the "and" in Humans and Nature: Ecology at the Boundary of Human Systems.