Client: The Washington Post
Project: The Marshmallow Test
Series for the Washington Post on the Marshmallow Test and its application to vulnerable groups of children, in this case Mayan children from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The article denounces the prejudices with which many scientists evaluate these children, using as a reference the results of children from privileged environments. In addition, they also omit other surprising abilities that marginalized and racialized children develop before other children.
In this series I wanted to reflect that what is wrong is the instrument with which these children are “looked at”. Also how invasive and uncomfortable it can be for a child to be presented with tests and objects that do not make sense to their everyday life or needs, and finally, how children re-signify the objects that researchers give them and transform them into something unexpected and wonderful.
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