[teacup50]

> Asking for their perspectives is a sensible way to investigate what the reason may be.

Is it? Why?

When patients visit the ER, they often believe that whatever change in their diet that they're aware of and focused on -- like eating cabbage last week -- must be the cause of their ailment.

When parents had their children diagnosed with autism, they cast their net for the nearest change to be blamed ... and found vaccines.

[tpush]

Ahem, what?

Are you really saying underrepresented people don't know why they don't contribute to a project they maybe would have?

[Karunamon]

Absolutely. People don't always know at a conscious level why they do or don't do things. It's part of the reason why user surveys are a poor substitute for telemetry on how an app is actually used in the real world.

..except that here, we haven't worked out the brain-computer interface yet.

[Certhas]

Every doctor will begin by asking: What is wrong.

The final diagnosis is not necessarily what the patient thinks it is, but it would be grossly negligent to not ask the patient about all information they think might be relevant.

[teacup50]

They ask what the symptoms are. They do not ask the patient to determine what the cause is.

Rust's methodology suffers from severe self-selection bias and politically motivated thinking. It will unerringly produce the answers its creators want to hear; if it does not, the methodology and subject selection will "corrected" to produce such answers.

[Certhas]

Rust is asking for experiences. The political/ideological bias here lies with you.

[teacup50]

Those would be symptoms.

These are merely "lived experiences" as related by a self-selected group under the banner of a very specific ideology.