Sociology

The statistics shaping medicine, education, and law were built to prove white supremacy. The man who created 'normal' in 1835 never intended it to be neutral.

In 1973, psychiatrists voted homosexuality out of the DSM. No new data—just ballots. What does this reveal about how medicine constructs 'normal'?

In 2017, 31 million Americans became 'sick' overnight when blood pressure thresholds changed. The authors? Paid by drug companies. Who decides what's normal?

The 9-to-5, the nuclear family, standardized testing — every 'normal' was designed by and for a specific subset. The rest were told to adapt.

The normal distribution wasn't discovered in nature—it was built into tests. How a statistical model became society's favorite excuse for inequality.

In 1950, the US Air Force discovered that designing for the 'average pilot' made cockpits fatal for everyone. The average human doesn't exist—but our policies still pretend otherwise.