Articles
- From Needs Assessment to Recommendation: The Belonging Fund Project
My team designed a fund to help students feel they belonged. Our biggest limitation was that we never spoke to a single student.
- Religiosity vs. GDP: A Regression That Passed Every Check — and a Causal Story It Can't Tell
A statistics assignment asked me to regress national GDP on a religiosity score. The model passed cleanly: a significant negative slope, ~38% of variance explained, both residual diagnostics clean. That cleanliness is exactly why it's dangerous — a passing model and a causal story are not the same thing.
- Precise About Forty, Silent About the Rest
A weekly discussion post on selection ethics and personnel law — not a graded deliverable, just the rawest writing in the whole archive — taught me that the law can be extraordinarily exact about one boundary while staying completely silent about another, and that noticing the gap is its own kind of quality control.
- MGNREGA: The Regression That Held — and the State Where the Budget Line Goes to Zero
My graduate final project analyzed 740 Indian districts to test whether approved labor budget predicts rural women's paid workdays under MGNREGA. The correlation was strong (r ≈ .82–.86) and the diagnostics were honest. Then I looked at West Bengal, the one state whose funds were frozen — and had to decide exactly how much that chart was allowed to say.
- The QA Manager, Part IV: Rating the Raters — and Who Never Got a Vote
Closing out a four-part series on one role: designing the performance appraisal that would evaluate whoever gets hired into it taught me that a rating system is a value statement before it's a measurement tool — and mine confessed what I quietly reward, and whose voice I'd left out entirely.
- The Personality Score I Didn't Pay For: A Big Five Snapshot & the Textbook Page That Found Me
An org-behavior course had me take a Big Five test, and the same week's chapter described a pattern I recognized more personally than I wanted to. What I did with an accurate, unflattering read.
- The QA Manager, Part III: The Satisfaction Survey I Built — and Every Way It Could Mislead Me
An I/O-psychology assignment asked me to build an employee satisfaction survey. I built six questions to measure whether someone in my own role would be happy — then read my own instrument the way I read a build I'm about to sign off.
- Catching False Passes in a QA Selection Plan
An I/O-psychology assignment asked me to design a selection process from predictors up. I built a three-stage funnel with validity coefficients and cutoff scores — then found the statistical error and the bias I'd built in.
- Shipping Defects in a QA Manager Job Description
Writing a job description in my very first I/O-psychology course taught me that a JD and a software requirement fail for the same reason — my own spec shipped with defects I'd have flagged in anyone else's, and the posting that hired me couldn't pass the same audit either.
- Brave Spaces vs. Safe Spaces: What Group Coaching Taught Me About Holding a Room
Two reflection papers from a group coaching course, and the honest audit underneath them: where I over-intellectualize, where I go quiet, and the word that ambushed me.
- What My Career Anchors Said About the Work I Actually Want
My top two career anchors tied for first place. In Schein's model, they aren't supposed to be roommates.
- VulnerABLE Pan-European Survey - A Critique
A European survey set out to hear from isolated and vulnerable people. Its own method may have quietly changed what those people felt safe saying.
- What My Cultural Intelligence Assessment Said — and Whether It Was Right
A self-scored culture test labeled me a 'Chameleon.' The honest part was where my own scores disagreed with each other.
- Defining Fairness Through Accessibility: The Invisible Tax of Shifting Baselines
When an instrument introduces construct contamination, it stops being a clean window into a person's actual capability. Instead, the score becomes a reflection of how well that person navigated the structural flaws and extraneous barriers built into the test itself.
- Exploring Psychopathology: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
A film assignment taught me that addiction is rarely a single event — it's the cumulative result of pressure, pain, and lost connection.
- Your Stress Is Contagious. So Is Your Calm.
I used to think of stress as a private problem. Something I managed alone, ideally invisibly. A background process running on my own hardware — not something that leaked into the room. The research says otherwise.
- Looking Inward: What a BuzzFeed Quiz Taught Me About Myself
My professor assigned us a BuzzFeed quiz. I took it twice. I got 'underprivileged' twice. Here is what I found when I stopped pretending otherwise.
- My Power Audit: What I Found When I Examined My Own Influence at Work
A one-page assignment asked me to audit my workplace power. What I found was mostly a map of my own anxiety.
- Gender & Competitiveness: Not More. Not Less. Just Different.
Men and women compete differently — not more or less. These are my generalized views drawn from weekly readings and research in my coursework.
- Can articles be password protected?
An experiment in keeping some writing private.
- Launching surojito.com: Setup Log & Honest Audit
Publishing a personal site taught me that every blocked step is just a negotiation — with a tool, a credential, or a UI that wasn't designed with you in mind.
- Persuasive Speech: Outline & Self-Evaluation
A persuasive speech assignment taught me to build an outline that does the heavy lifting — and that mid-speech corrections are just negotiating for clarity.
- Writing in my own space
Why I'm publishing my coursework and self-audits here, in my own words.