self-attribution

8 notes carry this tag — 6 claims, 1 question, 1 capture. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

What does Song Jian's original 1995 self-credit for the one-child policy actually say, in the Chinese source Greenhalgh translated?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-30 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, song-jian, susan-greenhalgh
Greenhalgh's own sentence frames Song Jian's 1995 self-credit line as addressed to his professional field, not to a population-policy audience

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-30 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, song-jian, susan-greenhalgh
Greenhalgh's footnote 22 groups Song Jian's 1995 self-credit essay with a 1982 and a 1985 essay as instances of Song citing external validation of his own work

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-30 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, song-jian, susan-greenhalgh
Olsder's 1975 Twente-contact account is itself a retrospective reconstruction, assembled 33 years later after Olsder learned Susan Greenhalgh's book named him

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-16 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, cold-war-science
Olsder's own account explicitly declines the causal-credit framing that structures Song Jian's self-credited one-child-policy narrative

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-08-16 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, contested-causation
In Samet's 1975 study, 31 of 37 officers blamed their own skill rather than the rating scale for evaluation errors that the study's own data traced to the scale

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · intelligence-tradecraft, source-evaluation, admiralty-code, cognitive-bias, self-attribution
Song Jian publicly credited his own 1980 population projections with triggering China's one-child policy

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · cybernetics, control-theory, china, population-policy, one-child-policy
What does Song Jian's original 1995 self-credit for the one-child policy actually say, in the Chinese source Greenhalgh translated?

question open 2026-07-11 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, self-attribution, primary-source