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<a href="#why-would-we-do-this" class="anchor"></a>Why would we do this?</h2>
<p>Researchers who collect self-reported demographic data from respondents occasionally collect gender using a free-text response option. This has the advantage of respecting the gender diversity of respondents without prompting users and potentially including misleading responses. However, this presents a challenge to researchers in that some inconsistencies in typography and sp