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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 [http://www.reducingstereotypethreat.org/ stereotype threat(ref?)].
 
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