[anigbrowl]

That's fine if you are measuring the bias component too. If you're not, you risk perpetuating it. It's natural if I read a sentence about hands to conclude that the test refers to people and not fish, but if I read about 'the hands of a surgeon' and assume that those hands are male based on the current demographics of the surgical profession, I'm making an unwarranted assumption on insufficient information. It's wise to grant utility to uncertainty by maintaining a 'Don't know' option rather than being in a rush to make a determination before it is necessary, not least because of the computational cost of unwinding incorrect assumptions.