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Scenario

How couples navigate conflicting disciplinary narratives about shared experiences

My girlfriend and I are both trying to understand what happened during the pandemic — she's reading sociology and political theory while I'm deep in epidemiology and public health data — and we realize we're constructing totally different narratives about the same events. It's making us question how we can ever really know anything together.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are confronting the unsettling realization that different ways of knowing can produce incompatible truths about the same reality.

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Patan
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Peri

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