I mean, I see the point you're trying to make. But that error could be pretty damning in the context of a detailed survey about, like, operating systems and their utilities. In that case, wouldn't you expect to survey writer to know those details, or at least not completely lose their shit when told about them from someone who knows more about the topic?
We don't know the purpose of the survey, but it's described as an "open source developer survey". I imagine gender was thrown in because, hey maybe the women use vim and the men use emacs for some reason, and that's kind of interesting to know.
