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Data Analysis
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Over time, EDI work has transformed so that the purpose becomes to ‘fix the data’ rather than the problems the data was originally intended to represent.
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― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
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The cleaning of data can remove its queerness: paper surveys where respondents score out the response options ‘female’ and ‘male’ and write their own answer, interview recordings were participants flip the focus and ask questions of the researcher, census returns where LGBTQ couples identify themselves as ‘married’ even when governments do not recognize same sex marriage. These examples demonstrate how collection methods can fail to restrict how participants share data about their lives and expe
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― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
