Alternative Gender Measures Survey

The Alternative Gender Measures Survey (AGMS) was conducted on Amazon Mechanical Turk in November 2014 to pilot measures as part of a proposal for a new sex and gender module in the General Social Survey (GSS). In order to test the measures in a realistic context, a six-item sex and gender module was embedded in a questionnaire designed to approximate conventional questionnaires in the social sciences. Most of the items were drawn from the GSS and have the same question wording and variable names. The AGMS sex and gender module includes: a pair of feminine and masculine scales asked from the first-order (how do you see yourself?) perspective, a pair of feminine and masculine scales asked from the third-order (how do most people see you?) perspective, and a two-step categorical measurement of sex at birth and current gender identity. This two-step approach is the same one adopted by the GSS for its 2018 survey.替代性性别测量调查（Alternative Gender Measures Survey，AGMS）于2014年11月在亚马逊机械 Turk（Amazon Mechanical Turk）平台上开展，旨在作为为综合社会调查（General Social Survey，GSS）新增生理性别与社会性别模块的提案中，对测量工具进行预测试的一部分。为在真实场景中检验测量工具，研究团队将包含6个题项的生理性别与社会性别模块嵌入了一份旨在贴近社会科学领域常规问卷结构的调查问卷中。该模块中的多数题项均源自综合社会调查（GSS），且保留了完全一致的题干表述与变量命名规则。AGMS的生理性别与社会性别模块包含以下内容：从一阶视角（即“你如何看待自身？”）出发的女性化与男性化量表各一份，从三阶视角（即“大多数人如何看待你？”）出发的女性化与男性化量表各一份，以及针对出生时生理性别与当前社会性别认同的两步分类测量工具。该两步测量法与GSS在2018年调查中采用的方法完全一致。