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by GolDDranks 1344 days ago
I haven't heard of it either, but "intersectionality" means (according to Google, but in my experience, sounds accurate.)

> Intersectionality is a theoretical framework rooted in the premise that human experience is jointly shaped by multiple social positions (e.g. race, gender), and cannot be adequately understood by considering social positions independently.

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This feels like saying that (generalized) linear regressions without interactions are inadequate. And criticisms of intersectionality seem to be that (a) high order interactions are statistically volatile and (b) multivariate averages miss important information.

Is it deeper than that?