A bit over a week ago, I attended the first meeting of my intro statistics seminar. As is customary in these things, the professor started off pretty simple, talking about different levels of measurement. When he got to nominal variables, he provided sex as an example of -- since the two possible values, male and female, not only cover every possible case, but are mutually exclusive. I'm sure I've heard this many times before, but I'd never thought to challenge it until then. Not much came of it, and whether he was really interested in my objection I'm not totally sure.
Really, this story just serves as a lead-in for the Cisgender Privilege Checklist I spotted over at Shakesville a few days ago, courtesy of guest blogger TheDeviantE. Some people don't like checklists, but I believe that they get people thinking about things they wouldn't otherwise take notice of. Like, for instance, casual upholding of the gender binary in a stats class.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
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