Who cares.
I take it you don't. Is it because you think there are no meaningful differences across sexes? Really, give this a shot: http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm.
Poll: Male or female?
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Re: Poll: Male or female?
#12This poll is probably meaningless, but it is a good indication of how many people read HN on Sunday afternoon. 80 votes in 20 minutes, or so. Edit: OK, actually 85 in 19 :)
At the time I voted, it was 96.6% male (143/148). I find it hard to believe that our community (hackers) is 96.6 % male. I don't find it hard to believe that hacker news readership is 96.6% male. Does hacker news "attract" a more male readership? Or is the population already this skewed?
Certainly both are heavily skewed to males. For example, in my Internet & Web Systems class, there are 25 guys and 3 girls.
Re: Poll: Male or female?
#13This poll is probably meaningless, but it is a good indication of how many people read HN on Sunday afternoon. 80 votes in 20 minutes, or so. Edit: OK, actually 85 in 19 :)
At the time I voted, it was 96.6% male (143/148). I find it hard to believe that our community (hackers) is 96.6 % male. I don't find it hard to believe that hacker news readership is 96.6% male. Does hacker news "attract" a more male readership? Or is the population already this skewed?
Slightly related PG quote:
I didn't realize it till I was writing this, but that may help explain why there are so few female startup founders. I read on the Internet (so it must be true) that only 1.7% of VC-backed startups are founded by women. The percentage of female hackers is small, but not that small. So why the discrepancy?
When you realize that successful startups tend to have multiple founders who were already friends, a possible explanation emerges. People's best friends are likely to be of the same sex, and if one group is a minority in some population, pairs of them will be a minority squared.
Re: Poll: Male or female?
#14This poll is probably meaningless, but it is a good indication of how many people read HN on Sunday afternoon. 80 votes in 20 minutes, or so. Edit: OK, actually 85 in 19 :)
At the time I voted, it was 96.6% male (143/148). I find it hard to believe that our community (hackers) is 96.6 % male. I don't find it hard to believe that hacker news readership is 96.6% male. Does hacker news "attract" a more male readership? Or is the population already this skewed?
If you believe Roy Baumeister, men are more invested in broad, shallow social networks. Much like this one.
Re: Poll: Male or female?
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the time I voted, it was 96.6% male (143/148). I find it hard to believe that our community (hackers) is 96.6 % male. I don't find it hard to believe that hacker news readership is 96.6% male. Does hacker news "attract" a more male readership? Or is the population already this skewed?
Slightly related PG quote: I didn't realize it till I was writing this, but that may help explain why there are so few female startup founders. I read on the Internet (so it must be true) that only 1.7% of VC-backed startups are founded by women. The percentage of female hackers is small, but not that small. So why the discrepancy? When you realize that successful startups tend to have multiple founders who were alre…
"pairs of them will be a minority squared"
A mathematical answer to a social question. Beautiful!
Re: Poll: Male or female?
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the time I voted, it was 96.6% male (143/148). I find it hard to believe that our community (hackers) is 96.6 % male. I don't find it hard to believe that hacker news readership is 96.6% male. Does hacker news "attract" a more male readership? Or is the population already this skewed?
Slightly related PG quote: I didn't realize it till I was writing this, but that may help explain why there are so few female startup founders. I read on the Internet (so it must be true) that only 1.7% of VC-backed startups are founded by women. The percentage of female hackers is small, but not that small. So why the discrepancy? When you realize that successful startups tend to have multiple founders who were alre…
There are a lot of women who get involved starting companies as someone's significant other, though, so I don't think that's entirely true.
Re: Poll: Male or female?
#17This poll is probably meaningless, but it is a good indication of how many people read HN on Sunday afternoon. 80 votes in 20 minutes, or so. Edit: OK, actually 85 in 19 :)
At the time I voted, it was 96.6% male (143/148). I find it hard to believe that our community (hackers) is 96.6 % male. I don't find it hard to believe that hacker news readership is 96.6% male. Does hacker news "attract" a more male readership? Or is the population already this skewed?
Do women hang out in online hacker communities?
Generally, no, and here's why: http://xkcd.com/322/
Re: Poll: Male or female?
#18Do you really need a poll for this? Just like every other tech site it's a bunch of 18-35 year old dudes sitting around clicking reload every 20 minutes.
Re: Poll: Male or female?
#19Is that matters online?
The poll author did forget the 'dog' option (as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_y... )
Re: Poll: Male or female?
#20This poll is probably meaningless, but it is a good indication of how many people read HN on Sunday afternoon. 80 votes in 20 minutes, or so. Edit: OK, actually 85 in 19 :)
At the time I voted, it was 96.6% male (143/148). I find it hard to believe that our community (hackers) is 96.6 % male. I don't find it hard to believe that hacker news readership is 96.6% male. Does hacker news "attract" a more male readership? Or is the population already this skewed?
The population probably is that skewed. Males gain a far larger evolutionary advantage from excellence than females, due to their lower direct reproductive investment; consequently, there are strong evolutionary incentives for males to adopt high-risk behaviours.