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Originally Posted by 4691mls
yes, sorry if I was confusing, I was intending just to explain what I am used to seeing in the US whether or not it was on your survey.
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Indeed. It has been surprising to me how vigorously US participants have expressed themselves about this question in particular, given that the option to self-identify existed. As I stated in a previous response, other surveys run by US-based research companies for a multinational market use the same basic format as the one I used.
The objection seems to be "we don't say it that way
here", when the survey's target respondents were not drawn from any one "here". This is a reality acknowledged by those US research companies who use similar wording and answer options when designing surveys for a target audience including countries other than the US.