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A small qualitative sample is used to explore literacy and skills, with an explicit warning against treating it as representative.

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Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
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Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
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Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗

A small qualitative sample is used to explore literacy and skills, with an explicit warning against treating it as representative.

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Attributed contributors: Caryl Feldacker. “A small qualitative sample is used to explore literacy and skills, with an explicit warning against treating it as representative..” Connected ≠ Ready: Getting to a Ground-Level View of AI Readiness for Women and Vulnerable Populations. ECOSYSTEM Summit, Barcelona, 16 September 2026. Session time 56:52–58:18. https://cs-ecosystem.commonshare.workers.dev/evidence/E-d389fc97080f

Interpretation and context.

Analyst synthesis. The recording establishes that a claim was made. It does not independently establish the claimed effect.

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A small qualitative sample is used to explore literacy and skills, with an explicit warning against treating it as representative.

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Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
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Limit: Sixty interviews are not a prevalence survey.

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Where it connects.

Credible judgement requires methods and context appropriate to the question, with failure and missing voices visible.

The corpus contains studies, practitioner accounts, demonstrations, proposals and questions. These establish different things. Local knowledge and negative cases can reveal what a generic measure misses.

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