Yes! And with the caveat that for research purposes, depending on what exactly it is you're researching, you might lump all of those together, but that doesn't mean that you're erasing anyone's identity, it's just, you need quantifiable data if you want to do quantitative data analysis...
(I realise this is barely relevant, I just saw a thing the other day on twitter again that made me groan and roll my eyes)
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Date: 2019-03-06 07:32 pm (UTC)(I realise this is barely relevant, I just saw a thing the other day on twitter again that made me groan and roll my eyes)