| 01:38 | <Sacha Greif> | by the way, I thought I'd ask since this is an issue that comes up every year: I'm always trying to broaden the survey's audience to include more women, but so far I haven't found any reliable and scalable method. if anybody has suggestions (or maybe can recommend the right person or working group to ask about this) I'm all ears! |
| 01:39 | <ljharb> | one possibility: it shouldn't be that difficult to make sure that the ratio of men to women referenced in the survey is 1:1 |
| 01:51 | <Sacha Greif> | so only use a subset of the data? I think it might feel a bit unfair to all the people who took the time to fill out the survey if we discard so much data. Also opens up the door to questions like "what should be the ratio of white vs black vs asian developers" that seem impossible to answer… |
| 02:28 | <ljharb> | i didn't say the data |
| 02:28 | <ljharb> | i meant the people listed in the questions |
| 02:28 | <ljharb> | like if all the personalities listed are men, that's a huge problem |
| 03:23 | <Sacha Greif> | I ended up removing the list altogether in favor of a freeform text input |
| 03:25 | <Sacha Greif> | I don't want to take over this space with this whole discussion so maybe this github thread is a better place: https://github.com/Devographics/surveys/issues/254 |