Took me a bit and I am a little drunk but here are the totals. We had a good showing.
Note: some comments got cut out because the server doesn't like displaying more than 300 from what I can tell. I did my best with what it would show, I just sorted them by new. This should be fairly representative of the currently active userbase. As an aside, I believe we did a similar survey a looong time ago, and we had only 33% of the active userbase as trans.
Random thoughts:
A lot of people were very very cute and confused and essentially asked me to decide their gender for them. Eggs? Probably. This isn't Harry Potter and I'm not a hat so I just went with what they were sounding more convinced of.
A lot of people are even cuter and don't understand how to follow instructions, though some of this is my fault. Made this a little harder to organize.
Some people were not cis and did not identify with the words 'transgender' or 'gender diverse'. If I ever do a trans/adjacent survey again, I think I will ask 'Are you cis?'
I may do a survey for queer people overall eventually, and the question will be 'Are you cishet?'
I would love to do more scientific, inclusive polling and have better and more questions and options, but we need some good secure polling tech for that, which we don't have. So I just have to ask simple questions and get a handful of answers.
Next time I will look into how feasible it is to post a couple of comments and get responders to upvote certain ones. This might fix the issue of the display of comments being limited.
Since some people have two sets of pronouns, both of their pronouns are included separately.
Since the poll was public, some marginalized groups probably shied away from answering. If we ever get a secure way to poll people, we would get more realistic estimates of the trans and cis women userbase.
#Tallies
Yes: 121
No: 137
Maybe: 37
Total: 295
If you think something is fucked, you can do it yourself, the thread is public. Hope you like pie!
I had an n of 346.
included and excluded
[he/him, comrade/them]
=he
,[she/her, they/them]
=she
method
Test string
text boxFunction
>List
Regular expression
field (aboveTest string
), paste:/^(\w+) \[(\w+).*\](.*\n.*\n+)(no|yes|maybe)/gim
List
field, (belowTest string
), paste$1;$2;$4;\n
;
(semi colon) as column delimiter (used semicolon instead of,
(comma) for compatibility when scraping all 4 pronouns)expected output is like this:
List
text box into a text fileresults.csv
and saveSet up spreadsheet
notepad.exe
on windows) to create a plain text file calledtemplate.csv
File
>Open
and selecttemplate.csv
It should open the text import dialogue. Important settings:Separated by
:comma
(uncheck the others)String delimiter
:"
(double quotation marks)Other options
: CHECKEvaluate formulas
File
>Save As
to save it asODS
format which allows more features compared tocsv
. I name this filecombined.ods
.Open results
File
>Open
and selectresults.csv
. It should open the text import dialogue. Important settings:Separated by
:semicolon
(uncheck the others) note this is different than the previous step!!Put results in template
combined.ods
B2
(blank under column headingUID
B
,C
,D
n
(the last column, actually it is column numberM
) so that each value is1
. by default it will start to count so the values will because1
,2
,3
etc. Should be1
,1
,1
.0
it will be excluded. So you can keep data you want to exclude in the sheet.Now you must know how to use a spreadsheet. I suggest fixing all the answers to be the same case otherwise
Yes
andyes
might be different in some circumstances.Briefly the columns are: -
A
:number
: assigns a random number so the file can be shared without publishing usernames - anonymizes data but lets you keep a record of how you got the results. How to:UID
number
(otherwise results will still be in the order as on the page and it might be possible to infer information)B
:UID
: user nameC
:pron
: first pronounD
:ans
: the answer provided -E
:concat
: combines columnsC
andD
. Expected output likeshe-Yes
. This is respresented in "Pronoun answer combinations" -F
:pron count
,H
:ans count
,J
:cat count
: absolute number of each -G
:pron count %
,I
:ans count %
,K
:cat count %: the
countvalue of each as a % of *
n* -
L:
keep: whether to include this line (explained elsewhere) -
M:
n`: total number of included rowsmethod variation: to capture all 4 pronouns
as above except:
Regular expression
field (aboveTest string
), paste:/^(\w+) \[(.*)\](.*\n.*\n+)(no|yes|maybe|deleted)/gim
expected output is like this:
subsequent instructions such as the spreadsheet may need adjustment
RESULTS
For some reason the markdown tables are black text on black text dark grey background on my computer. I can't seem to fix that it's a problem with the website theme. Idk I'm tired of this by now.
table: total answer %
csv: total answer %
table: Pronoun answer combinations %
csv: Pronoun answer combinations %
table: Pronoun answer %
csv: Pronoun answer %