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[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not only it’s very much possible, it’s the whole point of open ended questions. Where are you pulling those confident assessments from?

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It requires a yes no answer. That's not an open ended answer. That's why it's flawed.

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, you don't get it at all. I'm done thanks.