UPDATE: RESULTS HAVE CLOSED! thank you for your participation—we’ve received over 1,500 responses which is quite a lot more than we expected. aggregated results and community creation decisions should hopefully come in due time.

hello folks!

with our backlog cleared and many new people around, now’s a good time to do our first-ever Beehaw Community Survey–the first of what will likely be(e) many to come. this survey should take no more than 5 or 10 minutes to fill out, so we strongly encourage you to do so when you are able to. you can find it at the following link:

Beehaw Community Survey

the survey is comprised of seven optional demographic questions to help us assess the overall identity of our community and three questions relating to Beehaw and the Fediverse. it also asks you about 17 possible communities we are considering and whether you would actively participate in them if made.

the survey will be open for approximately a week. we’ll definitely close it before July 1, so please get your responses in before that date. it’ll also be locally pinned for at least the next three days or so, so please mind that. thanks!

results will also be aggregated and posted on here in a summary sometime thereafter. no ETA on that though.

  •  flora_explora   ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English
    14•1 year ago

    Great idea to have such a survey. I couldn’t find any questions regarding sex apart from the one about gender identity. That is, I’m trans but this doesn’t show because I just selected ‘female’. Likewise people that are intersex would not necessarily appear here. Or maybe I made a mistake somehow? If I was meant to fill out the field with the blank below, I probably wouldn’t feel comfortable doing that because this would again make a distinction between ‘the normal female’ and an other, i.e. ‘trans women’. I’m female/a woman. But I’m also trans. Both aren’t necessarily connected.

    A better solution would be imo to have an extra field asking if you identify as cis/trans/other. I get that this is kind of a tricky terrain though, just wanted to let you know/discuss it.

    •  alyaza [they/she]   ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) OPEnglish
      14•1 year ago

      A better solution would be imo to have an extra field asking if you identify as cis/trans/other. I get that this is kind of a tricky terrain though, just wanted to let you know/discuss it.

      next time we’ll probably do this yeah

    •  Gaywallet (they/it)   ( @Gaywallet@beehaw.org ) English
      14•1 year ago

      Yes, the gold standards on how to ask these questions are addressed in this fantastic paper created by the pride study. A quick summary of best practice is as follows:

      1. A question for gender identity - male, female, non-binary, intersex, other
      2. A question for whether someone self-identifies as trans - yes/no
      3. A question for sexuality (multi-select, including asexual and aromantic)

      Option to not disclose/answer for all above

      •  flora_explora   ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English
        6•1 year ago

        Yes, sounds great this way :)

        I guess depending on the audience (i.e. their knowledge on sex/gender) you could ask if someone identifies as cis, trans or otherwise in #2.

        Not sure how to best include intersex people though, maybe someone else has an idea? Because they could potentially identify either as cis, trans or neither and in question #1 there also isn’t room for this?

        •  Gaywallet (they/it)   ( @Gaywallet@beehaw.org ) English
          6•1 year ago

          Ah jeez apologies yeah the first question is supposed to have intersex as an option along with other, was typing up quickly and forgot to add. It’s a weird space because in medicine we usually ask about assigned sex at birth as well, so it can vary how it’s presented. Sometimes they’ll explicitly call out 2s, hijra, etc if it’s a big enough population or for like a LGBTQ clinic. I don’t think we need to go into that much detail

    •  cold_cathode   ( @cold_cathode@beehaw.org ) English
      4•1 year ago

      I also had similar thoughts on this. I filled out the blank with “transitioning to male”, but my preference would have been for a field that just says cis/trans/other. I imagine it is tricky to go through all the comments in the blank field as well and factor that into the demographics in the way the survey was intended.