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Another interesting statistic: 100% of us all went to "some college" or beyond?
The Readers of Hacker News: 86% male
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#2shocking.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.
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#3Wow 14% female! That's at least 5 times mores than in my computers science classes. (no joke)
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#4Sorry, but both of these stats are bullshit.
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#5Even 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?
Re: The Readers of Hacker News: 86% male
#6shocking.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.
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#7Wow 14% female! That's at least 5 times mores than in my computers science classes. (no joke)
During my year at uni, there were about 12 girls out of the 120 cohort. Strangely, that also works out to 14%...
Re: The Readers of Hacker News: 86% male
#8shocking.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.
Re: The Readers of Hacker News: 86% male
#9Wow 14% female! That's at least 5 times mores than in my computers science classes. (no joke)
During my year at uni, there were about 12 girls out of the 120 cohort. Strangely, that also works out to 14%...
> there were about 12 girls out of the 120 cohort. Strangely, that also works out to 14%
That would be strange, since it's 10% according to my maths.
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#10Even 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?
Because clearly, we (especially you) are creating a hostile environment for women on Hacker News, by our stubborn refusal to up-vote more cat-related stories.
/ducks