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[penguinofhonor]

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[Flying Dice]

Oh hey, this is back! Might be interesting to pair a question about preferred browser with the preferred OS.

Also, with the employment status, I'd suggest doing something other than a pie chart so that you could have a multi-option thing including: unemployed, employed, and student, since I'd guess that some of the people on here are probably newly into their undergrad work without a job yet, which is pretty different from being unemployed or NEET.

Also please remember to have an option for those of us who identify as attack helicopters.

[a1s]

Anyway if you want to determine the transness of the forum, "What is your biological sex?" is not the most effective way to do it. 5 trans men and 5 trans women will poll the same as 5 cis min and 5 cis women. "Are you trans/cis?" would be better.

Just because polls are anonymous, that doesn't mean you can't correlate answers within the forms (surely? It somewhat narrows your possibility of statistical analysis if you can't.)
Trans- and Cis- are actually not binary, but a scale. You might not (physically) match your genetic sex 100% at birth, or you might get some surgery but not others and/or opt out of hormones. If Skyrunner wishes to process the data, I'd love to see the genetic sex question as MC (4 options) and gender identity as a complete write-in.

[Skyrunner]

Oh hey, this is back! Might be interesting to pair a question about preferred browser with the preferred OS.

Also, with the employment status, I'd suggest doing something other than a pie chart so that you could have a multi-option thing including: unemployed, employed, and student, since I'd guess that some of the people on here are probably newly into their undergrad work without a job yet, which is pretty different from being unemployed or NEET.

Also please remember to have an option for those of us who identify as attack helicopters.

Could you clarify about the italicized part? Being an undergrad seems to simply mean being a student to me...

[a1s]

Being a student is orthogonal to employment- many students hold part time jobs (and not just as waiters- real entry-level jobs in their chosen industry) Conversely some people work full time and are attending (re)training courses and want that recognized.

[Flying Dice]

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I was saying there that someone who just entered university for their bachelor's might be less likely to have a job than a high school student, grad student, or upperclass undergrad student, as they're typically in a new town while trying to get settled in to a new home and get used to the differences in responsibilities &c. Not always true, but anecdotally I've seen a lot of freshmen like that who don't get jobs until their second or third year.

[Antsan]

Regarding politics: Asking for political ideologies seems to make more sense than asking for a point on a sliding scale.

[Skyrunner]

Regarding politics: Asking for political ideologies seems to make more sense than asking for a point on a sliding scale.

Could you provide a sample list?

(I hope nobody is offended by me saying this again and again >_>)

[Tack]

Politics seems to be very American-oriented. Which is various pie-chart percentage of us.
Q's (suggested and otherwise)

1. Identified gender
2. Cis/Trans?
3. Hetero/Homo/Bi/Other
(Could all be bundled into one pie chart even)

1. Preferred OS
2. Preferred browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Other)

Also- THEOLOGY
1. Religious identity. (Christian, Islam, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Agnostic, Atheist, Spiritual, Etc)

Although I very much reserve the right to submit all this stuff confidentially.

[Antsan]

Regarding politics: Asking for political ideologies seems to make more sense than asking for a point on a sliding scale.

Could you provide a sample list?

(I hope nobody is offended by me saying this again and again >_>)

I don't really know that many by name, but here are a few, some of them probably without potential voters and others nonsensical/actually called something else:

Anarchist
Communist
Socialist
Social Democrat
Free Market Capitalist
Objectivist
Monarchist
Fascist
Theocrat
Technocrat

I'm sure I am missing a few I should know. "Anarchist" and "Communist" provide plenty of room for diversification and there are probably many capitalist ideologies out there.

[Skyrunner]

Although I very much reserve the right to submit all this stuff confidentially.

The only guarantees I can make you are that (1) your name is not on the data sheet (though I suppose that one could piece together who is who (2) Personally-identifiable information will not be ever shared--only I can see a correlated set of data. (3) Most questions will be optional.. personal-info ones, almost definitely (4) I have no interest in finding out who is who, especially out of 400 pieces of info.

So I guess it depends on how much you trust me

[Caz]

Left/Right handedness. Just out of curiosity.

[Orange Wizard]

Actually, just a though - if you're asking about both sex and gender, it might be prudent to ask both in the one question. That way we can see any overlap a lot more easily than if the questions were separate.

I'd like to see an expansion of the political questions, rather than just "liberal" through "conservative".

Could you propose a series of questions and options for that? I am a bit detached from politics so i don't really know what kind of options I should have...

You could keep it fairly simple and ask where people fall on a scale of left to right for economic and social policy.

Left/Right handedness. Just out of curiosity.

Also this.

[penguinofhonor]

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[Magistrum]

What about "Sex and/or Gender:" followed by a blank where you can put in whatever?

There would be far too many Octopuses, Squids and other phalus-life.