Bad Gender Measures & How to Avoid Them
A guide by a trans psychologist.
10 min readJul 13, 2018
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Researchers: This is your regularly-scheduled reminder that if you are measuring gender in a survey, your options should not be “Male” “Female” and “Transgender”.
As a psychologist, survey designer, and statistical consultant, I encounter a lot of bad gender measures in surveys, and have to work with a lot of the bad…