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Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
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Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion
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“Hacking described his research interest ‘in classifications of people, in how they affect the people classified, and how the affects on the people in turn change the classifications.’ Hacking labeled the subjects of these studies ‘moving targets’ because researchers’ investigatory efforts change them in ways so ‘they are not quite the same kind of people as before.”
― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
“Visibility is a trap’... If the burden of proof is higher for LGBTQ people than the general public, and it remains unclear whether the collection of evidence actually initiates meaningful change, the utility of a data-based response to fighting injustice is called into question.”
― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
“Abby Day’s research on how people answered the question on religion in the 2001 English and Welsh census shines further light on the interplay between identity characteristics and the use of data collection methods. Day describes how interviewees and her study were initially ambivalent about their religious identities. However, when presented with a list of options, this crystallized their identity ‘in a way that seemed to suggest not that they were for example, Christian but -- perhaps more importantly -- that they were not one of the “others.”
― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
