I'm sure people are tired of hearing this, but it's equally tiring to continue seeing it.
Accounting for non-binary people doesn't even require a huge dropdown or open field, just add "Other" if you don't want to deal with it.
This isn't some fringe SJW cause, it's just a best practice for surveys if you want accurate data. [0][1][2]
It's not even about people's "feelings" or being "triggered", it's just about maintaining data integrity.
Not giving non-binary people the option to identify correctly, just leaves you with people who don't identity as male, and who aren't treated as male, being recorded as male. You're also making it much more likely for them to close the survey outright.
If, for example, non-binary people are underpaid, a survey designed this way would skew upwards, and misrepresent the average salary for all designers. It can also mess up your analysis of gender differences entirely, which presumably is the point of asking the question at all. If there is a gendered pay gap for designers, and non-binary people are sorted at random into male and female, any gap that does exist will be minimized.
[+] [-] kyleschiller|9 years ago|reply
Accounting for non-binary people doesn't even require a huge dropdown or open field, just add "Other" if you don't want to deal with it.
This isn't some fringe SJW cause, it's just a best practice for surveys if you want accurate data. [0][1][2]
It's not even about people's "feelings" or being "triggered", it's just about maintaining data integrity.
Not giving non-binary people the option to identify correctly, just leaves you with people who don't identity as male, and who aren't treated as male, being recorded as male. You're also making it much more likely for them to close the survey outright.
If, for example, non-binary people are underpaid, a survey designed this way would skew upwards, and misrepresent the average salary for all designers. It can also mess up your analysis of gender differences entirely, which presumably is the point of asking the question at all. If there is a gendered pay gap for designers, and non-binary people are sorted at random into male and female, any gap that does exist will be minimized.
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Survey_best_practices#Sex.2F... [1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-behind-beha... [2] http://www.hrc.org/resources/collecting-transgender-inclusiv...
[+] [-] paulddraper|9 years ago|reply
Sometimes you want someone's weight, not what weight they identify as.
[+] [-] PublicFace|9 years ago|reply