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You are aware that if you ask people for their sex but not their gender, and say something like "we have more women now", you will be philosophized into a pulp, right?
Only if people here are less interested in applying probability theory than they are in philosophizing about gender... Oh.
How about, "It's highly likely that we have more women now"?
Why not ask for both?
Because the two are so highly correlated that having both would give us almost no extra information. One goal of the survey should be to maximize the useful-info-extracted / time-spent-on-it ratio, hence also the avoidance of write-ins for many questions (which make people spend more time on the survey, to get results that are less exploitable) (a write-in for gender works because people are less likely to write a manifesto for that than for politics).
Because having a "gender" question causes complaints and philosophizing, which Yvain wants to avoid.