Gang, Regarding the gender and surveys question, here's the thread from last April. I don't know if the previous messages will follow and be easily retrieved. If not let me know and I will copy paste them all. Demographic questions are interesting. Maybe not that much if you a cis white male, but in any case, it's good to shift the male centred gaze and make other populations visible for once. It is even better to have this conversation, as many times as necessary. thanks, Marta Delatte creative director and co-founder ellenjames.net <http://www.ellenjames.net/> @martadelatte PhD Researcher Media & Memory Research Initiative University of Hull (UK) 44 (0) 7923 528128 wanderingliquen.com @liquen_ 2016-04-13 19:50 GMT+01:00 Umar Ruhi <umar.ruhi@gmail.com>:
Thanks for bringing this up Sky and thanks to everyone else for a very useful discussion on this important issue. I have to admit that in the past, I have experimented with several variations on the gender question including providing the “other” and/or the “prefer not to say” options. I have also used a text field which resulted in some rather rowdy data being entered in that field – which while fun to read through, made us doubt the seriousness of responses on the rest of the survey.
We took a rather more traditional/conservative approach this time, but I do like the suggestion about non-binary male/female with prefer not to say. Will certainly give this more thought for our next survey.
Thanks,
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