100% when you look at data for UK, though it appears we're less educated - 23% "High School"
The Readers of Hacker News: 86% male
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#12Now that I think about it, it's always felt 100% male to me. Can any females speak up and prove me wrong?
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#13100% when you look at data for UK, though it appears we're less educated - 23% "High School"
Per capita, people in the UK are more likely to have a degree - they converted all tertiary schools (formerly polytechnics) into universities in 1992.
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#15shocking.lol. while def has correlations to the dev/startup community, HN is a very low design site, super info driven, seems like that would appeal more to male demo then female.
I don't think it has anything to do with the design or the fact that it's info driven as it does the type of content. 12% was the amount of females graduating in computer science last time I checked, so it actually matches up pretty well.
Seriously, any other explanation for this is like noticing that 50% of the US population doesn't have a uterus and deciding, "Well, birth control is very popular in more highly developed nations, so maybe Americans commonly have their reproductive systems removed."
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#16Now that I think about it, it's always felt 100% male to me. Can any females speak up and prove me wrong?
Really? REALLY?
sigh...
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#19Even if these numbers are accurate, who cares? Get ready for a shock; men and women are different. We think differently, act differently, and like different things. Why is that bad?
There seem to be changes over time that are larger than genetic drift could account for, though. For example, in 1985, about 35% of undergrad CS degrees were awarded to women, while in 2008, it was 18%. What caused the proportion to drop in half over that time period?
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#20shocking.lol. while def has correlations to the dev/startup community, HN is a very low design site, super info driven, seems like that would appeal more to male demo then female.
I wouldn't say its a very 'low' design site as much as it is a very 'simply' designed site. I find HN to be very easily browsed and wouldn't have it any other way. The simple design shouldn't have any bearing on the number of female visitors to HN.
disagree, there are the blatantly obvious reasons as stated in comments above. Women do read tech news sites but I think HN design is more appealing to men. Not the core reason for the audience stat but an aside.