Misdescription converts structural constraints into individual failure stories.
Start with these field pages
Healthcare
Clinics, insurers, and care systems: where being sick is not enough and the patient must also become documentable, patient, and compliant.
Disability & mental health
Where refusal, withdrawal, and uneven access get misdescribed as individual dysfunction instead of design.
Education
Institutional sorting, managed inclusion, and the burdens students and teachers absorb to keep schools legible.
Labor/workplace
Hidden maintenance, coercive flexibility, and the smoothness an organization buys with what its workers absorb.
Product/UX
Testing usable recourse under stress instead of counting which features are present.
Law/admin process
Rights on paper against rights in use: what a person must survive to exercise a procedure.
Social services
Attrition as governance: how eligibility, proof, and waiting decide who gives up before help arrives.
Politics/democracy
Open on paper against actually responsive: who can be heard, and whether being heard changes anything.
Media/discourse
Journalism, research, and commentary: avoiding misdescription by using categories more carefully.
AI governance
Oversight for show against recourse people can enforce: whether anyone can make a system's error count.