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DaGrimProphet

English Gentleman
Dec 23, 2014
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did you just assume it's fucking gender bro?
That reminds me of some shit in school the other day. True story. We were asked to design potential questionnaires for a study into differences in attitudes to cars between males and females, so obviously on mine I put the first question as "what is your gender" with options for male and female.

The teacher comes around and checking people's work, sees mine, and asks me if I exhausted all the options for that question.

"Errr, yes?"
"Hmm, what about gender fluid?"
"But surely if someone was gender fluid they'd identify as either a male or female at the time of answering"
"Then surely you should ask 'what is your current gender?'"

I add 'currently' to the question.

He says "no, actually that seems like a leading question. But you definitely need a 'prefer not to say option'"

I comply, but I want to ask how you could allow participants to withhold their gender if the entire purpose of the study is to analyse differences in car attitudes between genders.

That dialogue is 100% true and accurate.