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<blockquote data-quote="SnowleopardVK" data-source="post: 5947938" data-attributes="member: 6677945">Sounds interesting, though a couple of notes on correctness in experimental format (there may be more mistakes than I've spotted, but these two things jumped out at me as things that some people could get REALLY offended at, and which I remember university research methodology courses stating to avoid)First, the experiment would be performed &quot;with the aid of&quot; willing female participants. Saying the experiment was &quot;Performed on willing women&quot; is likely to upset someone.Second, the one transgendered player would be &quot;a transgendered person&quot;, rather than &quot;a transgender&quot;. Identifying someone though one aspect of them is who they are is generally offensive, and definitely a no, at least as per general standards (it's like calling someone &quot;A schizophrenic&quot; rather than &quot;A person with schizophrenia&quot;, or &quot;A dyslexic&quot; rather than &quot;A person with dyslexia&quot;). Also if the transgendered player identifies as male is best to use the pronoun &quot;he&quot; rather than &quot;s(he)&quot;, as the latter can be ridiculously offensive to a lot of transgendered people.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SnowleopardVK, post: 5947938, member: 6677945"] Sounds interesting, though a couple of notes on correctness in experimental format (there may be more mistakes than I've spotted, but these two things jumped out at me as things that some people could get REALLY offended at, and which I remember university research methodology courses stating to avoid) First, the experiment would be performed "with the aid of" willing female participants. Saying the experiment was "Performed on willing women" is likely to upset someone. Second, the one transgendered player would be "a transgendered person", rather than "a transgender". Identifying someone though one aspect of them is who they are is generally offensive, and definitely a no, at least as per general standards (it's like calling someone "A schizophrenic" rather than "A person with schizophrenia", or "A dyslexic" rather than "A person with dyslexia"). Also if the transgendered player identifies as male is best to use the pronoun "he" rather than "s(he)", as the latter can be ridiculously offensive to a lot of transgendered people. [/QUOTE]

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