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[–]motss-pb 28 insightful - 5 fun28 insightful - 4 fun29 insightful - 5 fun -  (9 children)

This "researcher" posted their survey to

r/actuallesbians

r/asexuality

r/AskAsexuals

r/bisexual

r/pansexual

r/aromantic

I guess they don't want responses from gay people.

[–]GoValidateYourselfuseful lesbian 21 insightful - 2 fun21 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

The survey results are going to be skewed heavily anyway, towards redditors (generally young, extremely online, and politically activist). Doesn't sound like good survey practice at all.

[–]Shadow_Lurker 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Surveys like this should be applied personally and not on the internet period.

This is shitty methodology at it's finest.

[–]Cicerosolo 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I couldn't agree more. I got a sociology degree from a really well respected university and to see these plebs sending out their surveys online and thus with no controls is exactly why we out the social in sciences.

[–]jiljol 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's such a fucking joke lol. This kind of nonsense is where the 6492847% trans suicide rate meme came from; a poorly-made online survey that could be completed an infinite amount of times.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Trans suicide rate came from a survey of around 1000 LGBTQ+ people, from which only 27 (I think it was 27) were transgender, and 13 of them said they thought about suicide at least once. If you ask two straight men, and one of them say they want to kill themselves, it will be 50% suicide rate among straight men.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

They could straight up post survey on 4chan.

[–]blahblahgcer[S] 20 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's not even meant for LGBTQ+ to take, it's meant for everyone. That somehow makes it even worse.

[–]MadLass 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh my gosh I can imagine the actualtransbians data. Just this morning they had a post about how much they love girldick. 🤢

[–]reluctant_commenter 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Curious-- does anyone know who this researcher actually is? Sarah Beretta at Boston University, presumably, but they might not actually be a real researcher. I'm struggling to find anything on that name at BU.

I mention this because an undergraduate I know got in serious trouble for pretending to be a researcher endorsed by his university and posting on r/SampleSize under the name of his university. I think it's unlikely given the survey's front page mentioning the IRB and all, but worth considering.

edit: found my answers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/takemysurvey/comments/j7mgu3/comment/g85oecn