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operationalize is how you measure a concept.
since you can't directly measure an idea, you have to come up with a tangible thing that adequately represents the idea you want to know about.
In this case, the idea is that civil rights claims would adequately represent people's perceptions of injustice...because people will file generally claims when they feel their rights are violated. but I brought up the problem that not everyone can or wants to file cases. the additional problem of then I'd only be measuring perceptions of injustice, at best, not actual instances of it makes it not very suitable as a measure.

so I don't know, I need a better measure of injustice.
so the question of how would I operationlize it was a question to someone who practices law (you) of how you think injustice can be measured.

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