No, my dude. It’s an open ended question in the sense that it purposefully asks a question about a concept which is inherently personal. That’s how this goes for this kind of research.
The whole point is to let each person define what their own version of gender expression is, and answer based on that. The fact that more (or fewer) people are choosing a charitable and supportive definition of gender expression is, that’s the signal being measured.
If this number goes down, it signals that people are increasingly holding definitions of “gender diversity expression” that are harder for them themselves to accept. No measurement is perfect, but they can still be useful. If this “flawed” question carried no information, we wouldn’t be seeing trends on it.
One of the questions:
“1. People should be able to express their gender however they choose.”
Is pretty open ended. That can mean something different to many people.
Yes, that is precisely the point
If the question means different things to different people, it’s a bad survey question.
Not if the thing under discussion fundamentally means many different things to many different people, again that is the entire point.
According to whom?
If it means different things to different people, it’s impossible to make a valid conclusion.
Not only it’s very much possible, it’s the whole point of open ended questions. Where are you pulling those confident assessments from?
It requires a yes no answer. That’s not an open ended answer. That’s why it’s flawed.
No, my dude. It’s an open ended question in the sense that it purposefully asks a question about a concept which is inherently personal. That’s how this goes for this kind of research.
The whole point is to let each person define what their own version of gender expression is, and answer based on that. The fact that more (or fewer) people are choosing a charitable and supportive definition of gender expression is, that’s the signal being measured.
If this number goes down, it signals that people are increasingly holding definitions of “gender diversity expression” that are harder for them themselves to accept. No measurement is perfect, but they can still be useful. If this “flawed” question carried no information, we wouldn’t be seeing trends on it.
Yeah, you don’t get it at all. I’m done thanks.