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Ubisoft's gamer survey first asks if you're female, and terminates if you say "yes" boingboing.net/2016/07/05/ubi

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Hi Cory, there was an error with the setup of the survey, it is now resolved & available to everyone. Apologies for any confusion.

4:08 PM · Jul 5, 2016

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- any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. Remember that the next time you have to apologise.

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Having worked in market research this seems like an unlikely "error." You don't thoroughly test your survey programming?

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so what was it? did you not test the survey at all or didn't bother testing the female option?

Hx Or-Fi-S (Commissions Open)

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If only someone could have thought of a woman taking the survey, and tested for that. Apparently that never came up tho

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Now add an option for "other gender" or something. I still can't complete it because there's no option for me in the first place.

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seems like a big "error". Every time I start to think you care about female gamers, you do something like this.

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I'm not sure how believable "error" is. That's around half the human race.

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Ask U2 pilot

Col. Merryl Tengesdal about sexual discrimination and her simulator skills.

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an error? That's the reason it said "your profile does not suit". Nice that you made an extra screen for an error.

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There was no "confusion" unless you meant "fucking blatant misogynist discrimination." YOU SHOULD BE BETTER.