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Else-Quest and Hyde (2016) describe three epistemological perspectives that are commonly differentiated by feminist theorists and that are relevant to research in psychology. They explore how each of these perspectives might inform quantitative research approaches to intersectionality theory. As we explain in detail elsewhere (Warner, Settles, & Shields, in press), one debate among scholars who study intersectionality is whether intersectionality is best conceptualized as a theory, as a framework, or as an approach to social activism. Else-Quest and Hyde distinguish intersectionality as a critical theory in contrast to a falsifiable ‘‘grand theory.’’We refer to intersectionality as a theory here to be consistent with Else-Quest and Hyde’s framing of intersectionality as a critical theory in the context of discussing epistemology. We appreciate their focus on epistemology, because in psychology researchers do not typically …