You don't get to tell me what I'm allowed to know
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Replying to @EnnyishQuil @sladeofyaupon
Sure I do, if they're questions only I can answer
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literally my reaction to assigned sex fields on forms: “That’s classified”
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There are many cases in history where communities have come together to publicly refuse participation in research, because they believe that research will be used against them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
A conscious decision to "spoil" data - if there's a strong community norm against participation, then any data you do gather will be useless, because it's a non-representative sample (your sample will be biased towards those who have chosen to defect)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
Researchers get very upset when this happens and then frequently try to lie that it didn't happen, which is where so many of the hilariously bad studies in anthropology come from But it's no one's responsibility but yours to build trust with the people you would study
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
(See, for example, Puerto Rican independence supporters openly campaigning to abstain from any PR statehood referendum, so it will be publicly known the results will be statistically invalid and illegitimate)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
That seems like it might backfire from a public relations standpoint. Wouldn't pursuing such a tactic suggest you know your movement is a tiny minority and don't want data around proving it?
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Replying to @sadmac7000 @arthur_affect and
It creates a huge amount of rhetorical uncertainty around what is effectively a research poll into whether there’s majority support for a decision that would pull the status quo dramatically away from your position.
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Replying to @life_minutiae @sadmac7000 and
In this case it's also fighting back against an arguably abusive use of polling, by stepping outside the boundaries of the poll to "Take a third option" (these referenda are designed as straight yes/no votes on statehood without talking about the different options "no" entails)
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This isn't a theoretical issue, the statehood referendum that led to Hawaii's statehood was constructed this way, in violation of the initial treaty that put Hawaii under US rule
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