Language Experiment

You will read some sentences. Your task is to answer a question about the sentence to the best of your ability.

The experiment will take approximately 10 minutes. Let's start with an example!
Please note that this experiment cannot be completed in the FireFox browser.

LEGAL INFORMATION:

We invite you to participate in a research study on language production and comprehension. Your experimenter will ask you to do a linguistic task such as reading sentences or words, naming pictures or describing scenes, making up sentences of your own, or participating in a simple language game.

There are no risks or benefits of any kind involved in this study.

You will be paid for your participation at the posted rate. If you have read this form and have decided to participate in this experiment, please understand your participation is voluntary and you have the right to withdraw your consent or discontinue participation at any time without penalty or loss of benefits to which you are otherwise entitled. You have the right to refuse to do particular tasks. Your individual privacy will be maintained in all published and written dataresulting from the study. You may print this form for your records.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about this research study, its procedures, risks and benefits, you should contact the Protocol Director Meghan Sumner at (650)-725-9336.

If you are not satisfied with how this study is being conducted, or if you have any concerns, complaints, or general questions about the research or your rights as a participant, please contact the Stanford Institutional Review Board (IRB) to speak to someone independent of the research team at (650)-723-2480 or toll free at 1-866-680-2906. You can also write to the Stanford IRB, Stanford University, 3000 El Camino Real, Five Palo Alto Square, 4th Floor, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA.

If you agree to participate, please proceed to the study tasks.

Example 1

Someone is a teacher.

How likely is it that the person in question is a man or woman?

very likely a man								very likely a woman
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
				unsure

I am not familiar with this term.

Please make sure to select a value before continuing!

Great! Now we can start the real experiment. You will now read 39 sentences. Your task is to rate how likely the individual in question is to be a woman or man. If you think they are equally likely to be of either gender, or some other non-binary gender, you can select the middle option. If you are unsure of the word's meaning, please select 'unsure' and then indicate that you do not know the term by selecting the checkbox.

How likely is it that the person in question is a man or woman?

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	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
				unsure

I am not familiar with this term.

Please make sure you select an answer before clicking 'Continue'.

Thank you!

Your participation helps scholars of linguistics investigate the peculiarities of language.

We would also like to take a minute to acknowledge takes a simplified view of gender, which does not reflect the researchers' own conceptualizations of gender. It is our hope that this work will help to inform discussion around the use of non-binary and gender-neutral language in the long run.

Very Progressive								Very Conservative
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				Moderate