Eli Sander

They/Them. Compulsive chef, board game enthusiast, and Twitter lurker. Lead Data Scientist at Tempus Labs.

[Lyra, Esq., is NOT DAREDEVIL @PinkRangerLB]

So many queer and trans people right now are finding their old mental health systems insufficient because, well, a lot of treatment for anxiety and depression are based on the notion that your anxiety and depression aren’t rational. What do you do, then, with “don’t say gay” /1

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

@kareem_carr 🤦

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

@two_stdev A Drosophila researcher told me that too, in my third year. Then he made some truly ludicrous suggestions for how to collect intertidal data.

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

@AOC THIS! THANK YOU

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The President & Dem leaders can no longer get away with familiar tactics of “committees” and “studies” to avoid tackling our crises head-on anymore:

- Restrain judicial review
- Open clinics on federal lands
- Court expansion
- Expand Fed access/awareness of pill abortions
- etc

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

@two_stdev Omgggg

[Heron Greenesmith, Esq. @herong]

Are you paralyzed about what to do RIGHT NOW to support trans kids in Texas??

LIVE THREAD OF WHERE TO DONATE THAT AREN'T MAINSTREAM ORGS THAT ARE GONNA GET HUGE DONATION BUMPS RIGHT NOW.

(Please please reply or dm me with additions and recommendations)

[CPS COVID-19 Dashboard @CPSCovid]

🧵Today I’ll share the story of how @ChiPubSchools has been displaying different sets of COVID data to intentionally deceive parents & the public about COVID in schools. I’ll share evidence about how and (shockingly) WHEN they started fudging the numbers. Strap in. 1/

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

@MeUndies Thanks. I know that thread is a mess, so here are my recommended wordings:
https://t.co/dgWTOLa4Fm
https://t.co/jTaaftBgZ0
https://t.co/biUvtLuHbY

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

Do you consider yourself transgender?
a) Yes
b) No
c) I don't know
d) Prefer not to say

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

So I took a @MeUndies marketing survey and saw this. I'm not even singling MeUndies out, because everyone is incompetent at asking gender/orientation questions in surveys. So let's talk survey design! 1/

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

If anyone wants the full thread, DM me and I will send it to you in my preferred communication mode of google docs 😂

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

@j_remy_green has informed me that I mis-threaded everything so badly that it is totally unreadable. RIP to my dreams.

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

TLDR: ask gender, sexual orientation, and trans identity as separate questions.

Also, think about why you are asking these questions, because maybe those categories aren't that important for you.

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

~fin~

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

Maybe you want to weight your sample to a reference population, in which case you probably need to roughly match your question to the census (annoying because their question is bad, but you're kinda SOL).

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

Except probably you should use the three I wrote because EVERYONE SUCKS AT THIS SO BAD. I went to a MAPOR keynote about this a couple yrs ago, and even the "good" examples were pretty abysmal.

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

Point is, there are multiple valid ways to ask about gay stuff. It just depends on what gay stuff you want to know about and why :)

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

Maybe your boss wants a demographics dashboard, even though you told them a convenience sample isn't representative of the underwear-buying population. But they pay you, so you ask the 3-qn version, make a pie chart in Tableau, and feel the familiar wave of ennui wash over you.

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

You're also surveying your customers, so you probably don't want to piss them off with insensitive wording. So you might want to provide more options even if you'll roll them together during analysis, just so people don't hate your survey.

[Eli Sander @sander_liz]

Maybe you see LGBTQ+ people as a marketing segment (ding ding ding!), in which case you might just ask "Do you consider yourself to be LGBTQ+?" I think this is a viable option for @MeUndies .