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A Natural A/B Test of Harassment

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Re: A Natural A/B Test of Harassment

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Post by ijk »

hug wrote: post #8

What interests me about these discussions is that the common perception seems to be that women face a level of harassment hugely disproportionate to that experienced by men, however studies don't show such a large gap. There was a recent study by Pew[1] that shows the differing levels of harassment faced by men and women in various communities. Unsurprisingly, online gaming was skewed massively towards being more wel…

Actually, all of the questions are available in the complete report, starting on page 53. [1]

[1] http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2014/10/PI_OnlineHarassment...

Re: A Natural A/B Test of Harassment

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Post by return0 »

hug wrote: post #8

What interests me about these discussions is that the common perception seems to be that women face a level of harassment hugely disproportionate to that experienced by men, however studies don't show such a large gap. There was a recent study by Pew[1] that shows the differing levels of harassment faced by men and women in various communities. Unsurprisingly, online gaming was skewed massively towards being more wel…

It's not a common perception,it's a victim mentality that tech bloggers often project:

>"I’ve been lucky enough to escape attention from that howling mob"

this phrase is bad enough to discredit her writing.

Re: A Natural A/B Test of Harassment

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Post by girvo »

imaginenore wrote: post #15
A_COMPUTER wrote: post #12

Every f*ing video on Youtube by a woman has that one jackass who posts "make me a sandwich" complemented with 10-100 upvotes.

Every? Really?

Frighteningly close for anyone who has more than 301 views. I'm not one for hyperbole, but it really is quite amazing how consistent it is.

Re: A Natural A/B Test of Harassment

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Post by mindslight »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #10

Is this a lot? I've probably hat to press my "delete" and "report spam" buttons 10-20x this week due solely to "I need a Scala ubermenschen". So while there seems to be a statistically significant gap between men and women, the problem in this case hardly seems clinically significant. 36 over 5 years is barely a little over 1 per 2 months.

Once every two months would definitely set off my pattern detector, while twice a year might slide under the radar or at least make me not take it viscerally.

This is one of the few articles that I feel addressed this topic calmly and rationally. I appreciate that.

Re: A Natural A/B Test of Harassment

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Post by mindslight »

A_COMPUTER wrote: post #12

Every f*ing video on Youtube by a woman has that one jackass who posts "make me a sandwich" complemented with 10-100 upvotes.

Nice anecdata. It really adds to the level of discussion! Perhaps a simple solution is to just give that jackass a gift certificate to Subway.

edit: the downvotes on this comment come from the same source as the problem you hold so dear - simple herd politics.

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