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Incomplete draft. To be linked from Events/Affiliated, Events/Logistics/Wrap up and other places mentioning exit surveys.

How to have a good exit survey

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Gender

You might want to ask this to see if you are actually increasing diversity. But M/F as a binary choice is not inclusive. M/F/Other? We've been convinced that gender should be a single free form text field.

Lukas Blakk explaining gender as a text field on the OH events list
Sarah Mei writes Disalienation: Why Gender is a Text Field on Diaspora
XKCD blog post on gender in forms has some poignant comments -- "I’ve spend the last three months flinching every time I fill out a form, no matter how stupid the form, because I can’t mark M or F. (Sometimes it makes me cry.)"

On the exit survey for Open Source Comes to UMD we put gender as a text field. But still not perfect -- it's the third question, and there aren't only three questions. Gender should be the last question so as to avoid stereotype threat.

Summing up:

If you need to collect data on gender diversity, make gender a free form text field
Also make the gender question the last question so that it doesn't prime other questions

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 * XKCD blog post on gender in forms has some [http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/06/sex-and-gender/comment-page-1/#comment-20280 poignant comments] -- "I’ve spend the last three months flinching every time I fill out a form, no matter how stupid the form, because I can’t mark M or F. (Sometimes it makes me cry.)"
-On the exit survey [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGNtSUk1STVlYzlwekZRX0pQS0F2MVE6MQ#gid=0 for Open Source Comes to UMD] we put gender as a text field. But still not perfect -- it's the third question, and there aren't only three questions. Gender should be the last question so as to avoid stereotype threat(ref?).
+On the exit survey [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGNtSUk1STVlYzlwekZRX0pQS0F2MVE6MQ#gid=0 for Open Source Comes to UMD] we put gender as a text field. But still not perfect -- it's the third question, and there aren't only three questions. Gender should be the last question so as to avoid [http://www.reducingstereotypethreat.org/ stereotype threat].
 Summing up: