What do people think of asking or not asking about demographic details that are sometimes sensitive, or associated with sensitive issues? Two examples would be religion and gender; as I said, we’re thinking of cutting these, having already gathered data on them last year anyway. Another would be race, which we didn’t ask about last year because no one could come up with clear benefits that were sufficient to justify it. It wasn’t clear what use it’d be to find out that there are at least 200 Asian EAs.
In the Facebook thread Alex Rattee says: “I think that religion questions are interesting- from personal experience as a committed Christian involved in Christian social justice circles there are a lot of people readily primed for being very generous who should be v. up for a good amount of the EA logic. Would be good to track the growth/lack of it in such communities”
I replied: “We’re open to following the community view on that Alex. Do you or others think people might find the question offputtingly personal? How many?”
He said: “So I can only speak for evangelical Christianity really but that grouping definitely wouldn’t find it offputing, they/we’re out to spread the word about Jesus so typically we relish opportunities to let people know, maybe there are nice mutual arrangements to be made, where Christians and EA’s agree to listen to each others pitch for 20 mins… on a serious note though I think targeting evangelical Christianity would seem to me to be a good route for some EAs to be going down”.
What do people think of asking or not asking about demographic details that are sometimes sensitive, or associated with sensitive issues? Two examples would be religion and gender; as I said, we’re thinking of cutting these, having already gathered data on them last year anyway. Another would be race, which we didn’t ask about last year because no one could come up with clear benefits that were sufficient to justify it. It wasn’t clear what use it’d be to find out that there are at least 200 Asian EAs.
In the Facebook thread Alex Rattee says: “I think that religion questions are interesting- from personal experience as a committed Christian involved in Christian social justice circles there are a lot of people readily primed for being very generous who should be v. up for a good amount of the EA logic. Would be good to track the growth/lack of it in such communities”
I replied: “We’re open to following the community view on that Alex. Do you or others think people might find the question offputtingly personal? How many?”
He said: “So I can only speak for evangelical Christianity really but that grouping definitely wouldn’t find it offputing, they/we’re out to spread the word about Jesus so typically we relish opportunities to let people know, maybe there are nice mutual arrangements to be made, where Christians and EA’s agree to listen to each others pitch for 20 mins… on a serious note though I think targeting evangelical Christianity would seem to me to be a good route for some EAs to be going down”.
Doesn’t seem to personal for me (and, generally speaking, a good idea)