-What informs a researcher’s interests? Purely academic (if that’s even possible?), or somewhat personal? Merits/drawbacks(?) of each.

-Considering whether to attend a presentation/talk, noticing name of speaker (does the name “sound” particularly Latinx/Asian/Muslim/black?)

-Further, what does it mean for a name to “seem” like it belongs to a certain group? And what does it mean for that impression of “seeming” to influence decision-making? Is it possible to simply make an observation, in a value-neutral way, that a name “seems” to belong to a certain identity group?

-To what extent is it okay for preconceptions to function, if at all?