Dr. Cat Hicks is seeking new gigs!

(obviously there are many other women in these dudes' lives but I wonder about this just because?? You had a controlled comparison?? Right there?? I feel like I paid a huge amount of attention to my brothers' lives growing why is this not mutual for some of these dudes??)

I wonder often what the sisters of all these men who say "I had a daughter & suddenly I realized life had barriers for women" feel about all that

(this is the mundane vital stuff of asking humans good questions, it's a constant consideration. I put a lot of effort into this and have changed a lot of survey practices because of it, but never have I been asked to talk about this kind of work in an interview ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

I also think it's a key consent q: people taking your survey might be ok sharing a gender ID but might not imagine (and it's not on them to figure out) what you're going to combine that with. So permission is not just about individual static data but combinations of that data.

I get a lot of pushback on questions like this sometimes from very well-meaning clients who haven't considered the ramifications of these combinations. It's a good scenario for social scientists/researchers working in industry to practice having really solid explanations.

This is a difficult tension when you have people who really want to understand a possible insight from an interaction of something like race+gender, but safety and privacy and transparent consent always come first.

It's obvious when you think about it, but research design and anonymization are things that many people running surveys have never been trained on. Another thing I think about is whether we need to have a rule to not combine sensitive data for this reason, like race+gender

If you know the population, e.g. you're doing an employee survey, you need to have a rule to never subset into a situation where N < some cutoff. It often comes up with gender (only one woman in a team?? Reporting anything about data for 'women' on that team violates privacy)

Y E P. This is something I always check/think about when collecting demos on surveys. Every combination of sensitive demos increases the possibility of this triangulation.https://twitter.com/Napaaqtuk/status/1116059811102072832 …

I've been listening to the @yourewrongabout Enron episode and it's taking me a full two days just because I have to keep stopping it to stare into space and think "money is bad"

Someday I will get something together about the interesting and destructive ways that this culture sees genius, thinness, individualistic attention, hypercontrol and rigid orthorexic behaviors as all signs of intelligence

This fasting==intellectual "sharpness" thing is horrible, classic ED myth that has no business being promoted. Attentional hyperfocus isn't particularly good for long-term problem solving, and the very occasional euphoric effects of starvation are obviously offset by the damage.https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1115674546604892165 …

These are incredibly useful for data talks/research talks both inside and outside academia!https://twitter.com/prof_nch/status/1115574903795867649 …

This is literally life-saving work and I really hope an amazing person steps in here, I encourage y'all to RT. :)https://twitter.com/allafarce/status/1115650004419375104 …