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W.E.I.R.D.

A demographic lens for examining how Western, educated, industrialized, rich, developed contexts form perception.

Verb / doing: normalizing; sampling; comparing; provincializing

How?: How are we normalizing one population’s ways of perceiving—and how might we provincialize them?

Form: Lens

Stage: Working

Tags: Vexicon, Flexicon, IDs@Work, anthro., psych.

Being

Perceiving through W.E.I.R.D. habits and institutions.

Belonging

Participating in Western, educated, industrialized systems.

Becoming

Comparing, questioning, provincializing.

Begetting

Research norms, standards, blind spots.