race, ethnicity, and relationship status.
Same question as last time, only this time dealing with race and ethnicity:
If you were filling out a questionnaire and it asked for your race and ethnicity, either as one question or in two separate questions (and you knew that thousands of others were also filling out this questionnaire), what list of options would you want to see? Assume that this is a forced choice question (radio buttons).
Now the same question again, only for relationship status (replacing the old "marital status", which I hate).
An explanation: I'm doing a demographic study of Mechanical Turk participants. We're trying to market my company's product to potential clients, and a lot of that means marketing the participants we're using. We have to be able to offer a bunch of information about what kinds of participants are out there in what numbers, and hopefully show that it's a nice, diverse group. Some research has already been done in this area, but it's insufficient for our needs, and also a lot of the questions had bad answer options as far as I'm concerned (e.g., only offered Male/Female as gender choices). I'd like to do better. And obviously I don't think our customers need to know about, say, the detailed polyamorous relationship status of some of our participants -- but I would like to offer participants sets of choices that don't frustrate or offend them.
Thanks for the help!
If you were filling out a questionnaire and it asked for your race and ethnicity, either as one question or in two separate questions (and you knew that thousands of others were also filling out this questionnaire), what list of options would you want to see? Assume that this is a forced choice question (radio buttons).
Now the same question again, only for relationship status (replacing the old "marital status", which I hate).
An explanation: I'm doing a demographic study of Mechanical Turk participants. We're trying to market my company's product to potential clients, and a lot of that means marketing the participants we're using. We have to be able to offer a bunch of information about what kinds of participants are out there in what numbers, and hopefully show that it's a nice, diverse group. Some research has already been done in this area, but it's insufficient for our needs, and also a lot of the questions had bad answer options as far as I'm concerned (e.g., only offered Male/Female as gender choices). I'd like to do better. And obviously I don't think our customers need to know about, say, the detailed polyamorous relationship status of some of our participants -- but I would like to offer participants sets of choices that don't frustrate or offend them.
Thanks for the help!