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Poll: What are the gender demographics of HN?

#1

Post by Pseudomanifold »

Hi HN,

I had a great chat today with a researcher studying different online communities, their users, and their rules.

During that discussion, it occurred to me that while HN does not specifically ask for gender in the profile (which is a good thing, IMO, since it's not necessary for the discussions), it would nevertheless be interesting to learn who is hanging out here. Maybe we are in for a pleasant surprise in terms of demographics?

(This question is not affiliated with any research and is just posed to sate my own curiosity! I cannot see your votes unless you specifically comment)

Thus, dear HN user, what's your gender?

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Post by NKosmatos »

Being a “data junkie” myself, I would also like to have access to various anonymized statistics for HN users just out of curiosity, but this isn’t possible.

See some previous posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397332

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35567986

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#5

Post by 3c6bYDXLMj »

We aren’t in for a pleasant surprise. If this userbase is anything less than 70% male I’d eat my hat. Tech has obviously in general has made considerable progress in being more inclusive. But HN, being a community of old farts lamenting about the good old days (if I have to read another comment about how great it is that the site hasn’t changed in 20 years I’lll scream), as well as techno-libertarians wanting to tell you about their new startup, would IMO rightfully be subject to a fair degree of lag.

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Post by paulddraper »

3c6bYDXLMj wrote: post #5

We aren’t in for a pleasant surprise. If this userbase is anything less than 70% male I’d eat my hat. Tech has obviously in general has made considerable progress in being more inclusive. But HN, being a community of old farts lamenting about the good old days (if I have to read another comment about how great it is that the site hasn’t changed in 20 years I’lll scream), as well as techno-libertarians wanting to tell…

I think it's safe to say your hat is just fine

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Post by akomtu »

3c6bYDXLMj wrote: post #5

We aren’t in for a pleasant surprise. If this userbase is anything less than 70% male I’d eat my hat. Tech has obviously in general has made considerable progress in being more inclusive. But HN, being a community of old farts lamenting about the good old days (if I have to read another comment about how great it is that the site hasn’t changed in 20 years I’lll scream), as well as techno-libertarians wanting to tell…

A modern inclusion preacher begins his sermon with excluding all the groups he doesn't like, which are numerous.

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Post by KptMarchewa »

3c6bYDXLMj wrote: post #5

We aren’t in for a pleasant surprise. If this userbase is anything less than 70% male I’d eat my hat. Tech has obviously in general has made considerable progress in being more inclusive. But HN, being a community of old farts lamenting about the good old days (if I have to read another comment about how great it is that the site hasn’t changed in 20 years I’lll scream), as well as techno-libertarians wanting to tell…

I would feel safe about making that bet with 90%...
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