"[...] why create confusion in the minds of the surveyed and use up lots of valuable research time that could be put to making other aspects of the survey better in ways that will be statistically significant?"
Uh ... "In order to find out whether the number of people we're completely overlooking because they have no way to make themselves known to us, is in fact statistcally significant after all."
Though I have to wonder what she meant by "the standard way" on the non-standard questions.
Thing is, there are a lot more people identifying as nontraditionally-gendered these days, as folks who previously would've tried to squeeze themselves into some other box or just muddled through feeling "different" in some way they couldn't name, now have the concepts to explore these issues. So what percentage of the survey population would be confused by the questions will depend partly on the ages of the surveyed.
Heck, Lynn Johnston had one of her characters casually toss off the phrase "multigendered population" in passing recently, not as a plot point, but just as one aspect of how diverse the world is on the way to some other point. Just how alien are these concepts in our culture now? Less so than they used to be.
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Uh ... "In order to find out whether the number of people we're completely overlooking because they have no way to make themselves known to us, is in fact statistcally significant after all."
Though I have to wonder what she meant by "the standard way" on the non-standard questions.
Thing is, there are a lot more people identifying as nontraditionally-gendered these days, as folks who previously would've tried to squeeze themselves into some other box or just muddled through feeling "different" in some way they couldn't name, now have the concepts to explore these issues. So what percentage of the survey population would be confused by the questions will depend partly on the ages of the surveyed.
Heck, Lynn Johnston had one of her characters casually toss off the phrase "multigendered population" in passing recently, not as a plot point, but just as one aspect of how diverse the world is on the way to some other point. Just how alien are these concepts in our culture now? Less so than they used to be.