We've had some excellent gender articles on here in the last few days (especially http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm), so I thought it would be interesting to see how the community breaks down.
Poll: Male or female?
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#2Of course the responses to this voluntary response poll will not yield a reliable picture of the break-down of the whole community, for reasons well known to statisticians.
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#3Of course the responses to this voluntary response poll will not yield a reliable picture of the break-down of the whole community, for reasons well known to statisticians. http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tsta... http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=4582549&t...
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#4Of course the responses to this voluntary response poll will not yield a reliable picture of the break-down of the whole community, for reasons well known to statisticians. http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=194473&tsta... http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=4582549&t...
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Are you suggesting internet polls are not reliably accurate?
They are definitely not reliably accurate as representations of the realities they purport to represent.
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Are you suggesting internet polls are not reliably accurate? They are definitely not reliably accurate as representations of the realities they purport to represent.
They are definitely not reliably accurate as representations of the realities they purport to represent.
Yet certain parts of the news media treat them like proper statistical polls.
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#7This 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 :)
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#8Is that matters online?
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#9Who cares.
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#10This 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?