"""We are our narratives"""

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To contextualize CounterSchema; the stories people tell about the Test Patterns are actually stories about themselves. To a certain extent these stories match, just as individuals who share common culture share common narratives. But these stories will often diverge, especially at the level of greater detail. Beginning as a story about the Test Pattern, the path of the story diverges inward, until it merges with a main artery of self-story. For any individual the butterfly of the moment will cause a different route to be chosen, so this can never be an isolated variable experiment. But field work will still enable concrete observations about the nature of the paths.