The Looping Effects of Human Kinds¶
Hacking, I. (1996). The Looping Effects of Human Kinds. Causal Cognition: A Multidisciplinary Debate.
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3 citations across 3 artifacts.
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Mechanisms¶
- Category Review
- The corrective is Ian Hacking's distinction that a category can be a human kind — made, historically contingent, and subject to looping effects between the label and the labeled — and still track something worth measuring.
This sourceDistinguishes human kinds by looping effects through which classifications change the people classified.
- The corrective is Ian Hacking's distinction that a category can be a human kind — made, historically contingent, and subject to looping effects between the label and the labeled — and still track something worth measuring.
- Classification Impact Review
- This is Hacking's looping effect: a classification changes the people classified, who then come to fit it more closely.
This sourceThe cited work establishes This is Hacking's looping effect and a classification changes the people classified, who then come to fit it more closely.
- This is Hacking's looping effect: a classification changes the people classified, who then come to fit it more closely.
- Distinction and Frame Audit
- … collapsed into one checkbox, the frame cannot distinguish a parent who is unsafe from a parent who is poor — and, worse, the label itself changes the world it describes: once a family is filed under "neglect," future contacts are read through that lens, and the category quietly recruits the evidence that confirms it.
This sourceExplains how human classifications can alter the people classified.
- … collapsed into one checkbox, the frame cannot distinguish a parent who is unsafe from a parent who is poor — and, worse, the label itself changes the world it describes: once a family is filed under "neglect," future contacts are read through that lens, and the category quietly recruits the evidence that confirms it.
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