[Air-L] Gender and surveys

[Marta Delatte]

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 at 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,
>
> Umar Ruhi
> umar.ruhi at uottawa.ca
> University of Ottawa
> _______________________________________________
> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
>
> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> http://www.aoir.org/
>