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When research partners disagree on how to study justice fairly

My research partner and I are conducting interviews about criminal justice reform and we keep disagreeing about how to frame the questions — I think we need to push harder on systemic issues while they want to stay 'neutral' and I'm realizing we have fundamentally different ideas about what fair inquiry even means.

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Two people discovering their methodological differences reflect deeper philosophical divides about objectivity, advocacy, and the ethics of inquiry.

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