Did we really need a study to tell us that women spend an inordinate amount of time sending text messages and stalking profiles on Facebook?
Sorry, Young Man, You're Not the Most Important Demographic in Tech
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Twitter? What's that? A social network that limits how many characters I can type? Why the hell would I use that?"
Great example- the latest figures I can find state that only 13% of the US population use Twitter. I have to imagine the figure is even lower internationally, and only a tiny minority of that 13% post to it regularly.
Considering, I know nobody that actually uses Twitter I think 13% is wildly overstated.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Twitter? What's that? A social network that limits how many characters I can type? Why the hell would I use that?"
Great example- the latest figures I can find state that only 13% of the US population use Twitter. I have to imagine the figure is even lower internationally, and only a tiny minority of that 13% post to it regularly.
@Retric - that merely suggests they lie in the 87% of the US population who don't use Twitter, according to the parent's figures.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great example- the latest figures I can find state that only 13% of the US population use Twitter. I have to imagine the figure is even lower internationally, and only a tiny minority of that 13% post to it regularly.
Considering, I know nobody that actually uses Twitter I think 13% is wildly overstated.
Without wanting to sound too harsh: there's a reason why statistics are not based around personal anecdotes.
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#35So it turns out if you want to find out what the future looks like, you should be asking women.
No, that's the wrong lesson to take home. If you want to see what the future looks like, you should be asking women AND men. It's not an either/or proposition. This comment just reverses the bias.
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#36tltr: women yap more, today they do it using phone/skype/facebook.
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#37"A young man contemplating his decreasing significance on the world stage" ...hilarious. There's some truth in this. And it's what often concerns me about the tech world- that it's a big echo chamber of young, tech savvy people that actually represents a tiny demographic. It's one of the reasons I like living in New York- it gives me perspective. I see hundreds of people that are using 'dumbphones' and are quite happ…
I agree with you in theory but I'm equally, if not more, skeptical of whatever perspective I think I'm getting from living in NYC.
Concentric bubbles of culture.
Entrepreneur bubble, inside of the hacker bubble, inside of the "internet culture" bubble, inside the Anglophone bubble, inside of the white male firstworlder bubble...
It's really quite hard to get actionable perspective, sometimes.
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#38It began with That's one reason why less than 10 percent of venture capital-backed companies have female founders and there is a massive gender gap in tech. and then It turns out women are our new lead adopters. When you look at internet usage, it turns out women in Western countries use the internet 17 percent more every month than their male counterparts. Women are more likely to be using the mobile phones they own…
The OP is describing what he believes to be an emerging trend.
Specifically, he is challenging the stereotype that technology is still a male-dominated market on the consumption side. Part of his argument centers around the fact that because the production side is heavily lined with men, they can be partially blinded to the fact that women are becoming a very important tech market.
To piggyback on the above, consumption logically would precede production. Most of those working in technology today had some interest in it prior to their career. If the author is correct, we can probably expect to see the gender gap narrow over the coming years.
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#39Is there a hackernews that isn't focused on consumer software?
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#40Wondering why every weekend HN needs a dose of gender issue in tech posts. Genuine question.