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AcordingIP (imported) wrote: Thu Mar 24, 2022 7:34 pm Done. Badly designed. Honestly answered. Anything to promote our community gets the thumbs up from me.

And yes, I used to be a statistician. It's a sad life - imagine the office parties. But some weird questions in there....

JesusA wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 12:24 pm This survey is designed to help us to understand interest in castration, eunuchs, and related subjects. There will be questions related to your experience in childhood, and also sexual history. Whatever your status—whether you are castrated or not—if you read the Eunuch Archive we hope you will take the survey. What we learn here should help health care providers better serve those who have an interest in castration. The full questionnaire takes approximately 30-45 minutes to complete. Regardless of your level of interest in castration, you are invited to take the survey; all responses are valuable.

The survey includes questions on childhood experiences, castration desire and sexual history. Those who completed our previous questionnaires may recognize some questions repeated here. This repetition is so we can compare the results from the older surveys with results from this newer survey. Some questions may seem irrelevant. Some may be quite uncomfortable. Many are part of questionnaires that have been used with other, quite different, populations to which our findings might be compared. Such comparisons will help to place eunuchs and the eunuch-interested into a larger context. The uncomfortable questions may help us to point out important differences with other populations to whom eunuchs are sometimes compared.

All data collected will be kept completely confidential. We do not ask for names or addresses or any other identifying information.

Please answer as honestly as you can. We hope that you will fill in all the questions, but you should feel free to skip any question that you feel uncomfortable answering. Please also note that "castration" in this questionnaire is defined as any procedure that removes or destroys the testicles themselves or causes them to no longer function. This is not the same as removal of foreskin (circumcision), removal of the penis, which is termed "penectomy" in the questionnaire or "nullification" which means that both testicles and penis have been removed.

Publications that are based on this survey will be announced on the Eunuch Archive and made available to any who request them from the authors. Publications from the earlier surveys (2005, 2008, and 2017) are available from the authors. You can request copies either through the Eunuch Archive or by writing directly to us. A recent post lists the 30 papers currently available: http://forums.eunuch.org/showthread.php ... rch-papers

(http://forums.eunuch.org/showthread.php ... rch-papers)

If you have any questions about the survey and its use or purposes, feel free to contact Prof. Thomas W. Johnson ([email protected]). He will be happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Thank you.

Tom Johnson

The survey is

JesusA wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 12:24 pm This survey is designed to help us to understand interest in castration, eunuchs, and related subjects. There will be questions related to your experience in childhood, and also sexual history. Whatever your status—whether you are castrated or not—if you read the Eunuch Archive we hope you will take the survey. What we learn here should help health care providers better serve those who have an interest in castration. The full questionnaire takes approximately 30-45 minutes to complete. Regardless of your level of interest in castration, you are invited to take the survey; all responses are valuable.

The survey includes questions on childhood experiences, castration desire and sexual history. Those who completed our previous questionnaires may recognize some questions repeated here. This repetition is so we can compare the results from the older surveys with results from this newer survey. Some questions may seem irrelevant. Some may be quite uncomfortable. Many are part of questionnaires that have been used with other, quite different, populations to which our findings might be compared. Such comparisons will help to place eunuchs and the eunuch-interested into a larger context. The uncomfortable questions may help us to point out important differences with other populations to whom eunuchs are sometimes compared.

All data collected will be kept completely confidential. We do not ask for names or addresses or any other identifying information.

Please answer as honestly as you can. We hope that you will fill in all the questions, but you should feel free to skip any question that you feel uncomfortable answering. Please also note that "castration" in this questionnaire is defined as any procedure that removes or destroys the testicles themselves or causes them to no longer function. This is not the same as removal of foreskin (circumcision), removal of the penis, which is termed "penectomy" in the questionnaire or "nullification" which means that both testicles and penis have been removed.

Publications that are based on this survey will be announced on the Eunuch Archive and made available to any who request them from the authors. Publications from the earlier surveys (2005, 2008, and 2017) are available from the authors. You can request copies either through the Eunuch Archive or by writing directly to us. A recent post lists the 30 papers currently available: http://forums.eunuch.org/showthread.php ... rch-papers

(http://forums.eunuch.org/showthread.php ... rch-papers)

If you have any questions about the survey and its use or purposes, feel free to contact Prof. Thomas W. Johnson ([email protected]). He will be happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Thank you.

attistoC (imported) wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 3:32 am Tom Johnson

The survey is

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Losethem (imported) wrote: Mon Mar 28, 2022 2:59 am For those saying it didn't capture your own situation, what could have made it better and done more to do that? Keeping in mind this is something meant to gather information from as wide a group as possible.

I could see a follow-up survey at some point to better address things which may have been missed. I think this survey is a good start though. It may help answer if there are other questions which may need asking in the future, when it becomes obvious there is something missing.