Timeline for Where is the best place to ask the user their ethnicity?
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| Feb 13, 2015 at 1:49 | comment | added | David | I've considered the same point you are because I'm at least 4 European ethnicities. However, I'm thinking of people whose parents are from ethnic groups that fall into different options in the dropdown/checkboxes, e.g. one of their parents is white and one is black. Some people who that describes identify primarily as one ethnicity or the other, while others give equal (or no) weight to both and/or identify only as multiethnic. My point is, we should let people describe their ethnicities as they want to describe them and strive for accuracy (which "both-and" lets us do). | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 0:27 | comment | added | Zan Lynx | @David: Unless it is really important to them I would bet they just stab randomly at whatever is close enough. Perhaps because I am Caucasian I just don't care about it? Should I worry that I can't enter English/Russian/German with the appropriate percentage mixes? | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 22:48 | comment | added | David | Drop-down list: not advisable unless there is a "More than one of these" option (and it gives the application enough data). Many people are more than one ethnicity. | |
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| Feb 12, 2015 at 2:20 | history | answered | Zan Lynx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |