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[–]GoValidateYourselfuseful lesbian 21 insightful - 2 fun21 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 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 -  (3 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 -  (2 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.