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Data Analysis
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Are your ways of working open, accessible and transparent?
Traditional approaches to quantitative data collection and analysis are misunderstood as an objective account of reality; an assumption that masks decisions made throughout the design process. A queer approach to data is also influenced by biases and assumptions; those engaged in queer data practices therefore need to describe how decisions are made, in accessible language, and its effect on the results presented. Openness about the limi
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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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What is your end goal?
The collection and analysis of gender, sex and sexuality data is not an objective in itself, nor is the ambition to gather ‘good data’ or fix the numbers. While paying attention to the potential for methods to misrepresent or exclude, such as strategic essentialism, ensure that data about LGBTQ people is ultimately used to construct a social world that values and improves LGBTQ lives.
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― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
― Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
