<div dir="ltr">Al,<div><br></div><div>So on the basis of my gender I'm not allowed to express an opinion on how data is solicited and collected? le sigh.</div><div><br></div><div>Madelynn,</div><div><br></div><div>Collecting qualitative data is valuable certainly and I'd be interested in reading the results. My concern was that there is only one way to present the results of a "yes / no" question and, given the solicitation you gave I was concerned it wouldn't give an accurate picture.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If we're going to do research I'd rather the methodology be solid before the data starts coming in. It makes the study more resilient in the face of opposition.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Red</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Madelynn Martiniere <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmartiniere@gmail.com" target="_blank">mmartiniere@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Al responded perfectly. If there's no stories to tell, there's no article. <br></div><div>
<br></div><div>If the semantics are truly bothersome to those who would like to share their stories, I'm happy to change the wording of the question, though it won't change the results as I'm asking for qualitative data.</div>
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<div><br>On 26 Jan 2014, at 09:17 pm, Al Billings <<a href="mailto:albill@openbuddha.com" target="_blank">albill@openbuddha.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">
Yes, please, a man should tell her how she’s doing it wrong.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">
She’s collecting stories. If there are no stories to tell, as some of you claim, she’ll get nothing. “Skewing” isn’t the issue here since she isn’t asking “how often does this happen” but, instead, “Tell me about something if it happened to you.”</div>
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Al</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div> <div style="color:gray"><hr>From: <span style="color:black">Red Davies</span> <a href="mailto:noiddicle@gmail.com" target="_blank">Red Davies</a><br>
Reply: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Date: <span style="color:black">January 26, 2014 at 9:15:48 PM</span><br>
To: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> Re: [hackerspaces] Safe Space Policies? <br>
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I feel I need to point something out. Your invitation to that form says "<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px">If any women in hackerspaces have stories of sexism they'd like to share with me for an article".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px">One of your questions in your form is: "</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold">Have you had any experiences of sexism, misogyny, harassment, or assault in a hackerspace?</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px">"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px">Given your invitation I would suggest that you've already skewed your results.</span></div></div></span></blockquote> <div>
<span style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"></span>-- <br>Al Billings<br><a href="http://makehacklearn.org" target="_blank">http://makehacklearn.org</a><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="im">
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