Sure, we just have to reword it - something like this may be less confrontational:
> "Hi! I have a suggestion on question #14. I think we can improve this to be more inclusive by replacing the options w ith "male", "female", "gender queer" "non-binary", (...) Since transgender people may or may not associate with a gender, we have be a little careful when asking for a gender. Hope this helps!"
When I write emails, I always pretend to "YELL" the email in the most dramatic way possible. If it sounds potentially confrontational yelling what I am saying, it could be intimidating for some people.
By defusing the way you talk to others, you make them feel more comfortable around you. The more comfortable people feel around you, the more they trust you and listen to what you say. It's a win-win :)
It's minesweeper, not an enterprise storage server. Spending 3 hours planning minesweeper would be insane. Heck even planning for more than 20 minutes, in my personal opinion, is overkill. You should be able to at least get started before the 30 minute mark and if you spent half the time planning should be close to being done before the end of the hour. At the end of the hour, just explain what you have left to do.
Eh - humans generally have a hard time rating things on a 5 star rating system. That's mainly because the discrete intervals between 1 and 5 stars aren't well defined so everyone will have a different opinion of what 3 stars "mean". I encountered this when I ran a rating system in Mechanical Turk. If you ask turkers to do something arbitrary like "rate the quality of this picture" it takes quite a number of ratings on the same image to get an accurate consensus.
It would be interesting to see if you can replicate experiment but replace the 5 stars with 5 yes/no questions regarding their performance and see if those match up
What an awesome project - I always wanted to do something like this in college. Apparently, I wasn't alone - there are whole online message boards focused on really bright flashlights
> "Hi! I have a suggestion on question #14. I think we can improve this to be more inclusive by replacing the options w ith "male", "female", "gender queer" "non-binary", (...) Since transgender people may or may not associate with a gender, we have be a little careful when asking for a gender. Hope this helps!"
When I write emails, I always pretend to "YELL" the email in the most dramatic way possible. If it sounds potentially confrontational yelling what I am saying, it could be intimidating for some people.
By defusing the way you talk to others, you make them feel more comfortable around you. The more comfortable people feel around you, the more they trust you and listen to what you say. It's a win-win :)