I wouldn't tell you if I were a FSSW, given I live in the USA. I don't collect the ip addresses of people who submit, the information is submitted through google forms (as you can tell) and thus goes to a spreadsheet.
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Why do you need a spreadsheet on the income and safe sex practices of your peers?
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I want to see how much different things affect income - ethnicity, appearance, enjoyment of the job, etc.
Safe sex is because my hypothesis was most escorts practice safe sex and I wanted to see if it was true. Looks like it is - good data for responding to anti sex worker ppl.
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There already is mountains of lit on safer sex practices conducted throughout the past 40 years literally all over the world. You would know this if u were in any way legitimate. Furthermore, just using a google form and a spreadsheet is NOT SECURE ENOUGH. False promises are bad
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I'm not claiming to be legitimate, all I'm doing is a survey. Lots of questions I ask (both in this survey and others) have been done before. I like doing replication.
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Legitimacy is at the crux of good research. You are doing a survey that hold massive negative ramifications for the sex work community and don’t seem to care that we’re going to suffer from your actions. And this doesn’t even qualify for the moniker of replication!
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dang you're taking my lil google form questionairre suuuper seriously here, im also confused about what sort of world you're operating in if a google forms questionnaire can make sex workers suffer so much
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Fuck yeah I am. I take my community’s welfare seriously. I take ethics seriously. I take soliciting labor of marginalised populations seriously. I, for one, am self-aware.
It’s sad you don’t feel the same. But then again, you are a self-confessed unethical researcher so 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
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It's not really that ♥️ it's that the data she's asking for isnt something that's safe on a Google doc, nor is it endorsed by any peer based org. It's just very iffy. As a community people LOVE to lunge onto statistics and warp them. It's just not a good idea, especially atm
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I agree that statistics are really dangerous, as in easily warped, taken out of context, read to mean things they don't actually indicate. I try to keep this in mind and be really open about data limitations whenever I talk about any results from my surveys.
Like I said, if you feel so passionate about this project, then work with a peer org. There are so many in the USA. Create safeguards. Protect your community. Don't be wilding with some Google spreadsheet like it's the wild wild west of research
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No, I have a really strong distrust for mainstream academia. I don't trust them, I don't trust their competence or their moral sense or their incentive structure.
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I'm also not academically trained whatsoever (yay being too poor for college), but I am... relatively literate in research, possibly moreso than a lot of people who actually do research. I'm also part of a community that's super sticklers about not fucking with data.