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How to find out what people in rural communities really need (with Robert Chambers)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Importance of Recognizing Biases
I think it's the importance of recognizing biases and deliberately offsetting them. This goes for much more than development. It goes for across the board in terms of who learns from who, who is a malacist. I've particularly gone to town on this have been the biases of rural appraisal. There are very strong biases built into those processes. We need to recognize the blind spots. The relationship between undernutrition and stunting and fickily transmitted infections remains a blind spot. When sanitation improves, people are taller. But not because of a bad diet. You can change the diet and people will still be short but because of infections from the feces. So when sanitation improves,people are taller
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