"Please indicate your gender identity on a spectrum of 1 to 5*, where 1 is Completely Female, 3 is Equally/Neither Male and/or Female, and 5 is Completely Male."
* or 7, or 9, depending on the desired level of granularity.
Er ... except that gender isn't always a single-axis phenomenon. (Sandra Bem, in the BSR, used a two-axis model, where one could wind up described as strongly masculine / unfeminine; strongly feminine / unmasculine; strongly masculine / strongly feminine simultaneously; weakly gendered at all; and various combinations of weak-moderate-strong masculinity and femininity. Now the BSRI measures gender roles -- as they map onto cultural markers at a particular time in a particular society -- but I find the same mapping useful for explaining gender identity as well. And my BSRI score isn't all that far off from how I feel about my gender.)
Still, it'd be interesting to see what marketing specialists would do with more fine-grained data than just M or F!
And see, that's the first time I've even heard of (or considered) another axis. At some point, though, simplifications and generalizations must be made, hopefully without insulting anyone overly much who resides in the then-grey area.
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* or 7, or 9, depending on the desired level of granularity.
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Still, it'd be interesting to see what marketing specialists would do with more fine-grained data than just M or F!
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