On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I believe we did a one-question gender microsurvey before (linked to
> one of the new-user features?). I don't know whether the data was
> useful or not, but I do remember the act of asking the question itself
> got some pushback as being invasive/unwelcoming/weirdly
> communicated/etc. (and I can certainly symapthise with this)
>
> So as well as the value of the data, we should consider whether the
> act/method of asking is going to have knock-on effects on what we're
> trying to measure.
>

Yes, we've tried this once. It's documented at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Gender_micro-survey

Frankly this was pretty hackish and limited. The data is not garbage but
it's not the most elegant approach to a one question survey.

-- 
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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