Yes, I hear it's a pet project of the Commissioner of the Blind, and he wants to use it as an actual factual basis for making decisions about who gets services, even though, from a research perspective, the wording and the way the questions and answers are posed are amateur and imprecise--at one point I was freaking out that I had filled out a phishing attack, until another blind person assured me it was legit. I'm also afraid that the questions may become part of the actual registration process, including the questions regarding people's legal status. Even if this is legal, which I can't imagine it is, this is going to scare so many people away from getting services, even before MCB rejects them as unsuitable. And the Commissioner justifies all this as "fact finding." My MIT/Ravenclaw side is possibly almost as appalled at the poor research skills involved--if you saw it, you would make those outraged shrieky Jesse the K noises, that I secretly kind of enjoy hearing, because I think of them as your war cry.
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Date: 2021-06-17 12:31 pm (UTC)I'm also afraid that the questions may become part of the actual registration process, including the questions regarding people's legal status.
Even if this is legal, which I can't imagine it is, this is going to scare so many people away from getting services, even before MCB rejects them as unsuitable. And the Commissioner justifies all this as "fact finding." My MIT/Ravenclaw side is possibly almost as appalled at the poor research skills involved--if you saw it, you would make those outraged shrieky Jesse the K noises, that I secretly kind of enjoy hearing, because I think of them as your war cry.