MichaelGR comments on Of Gender and Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelGR 16 April 2009 01:42:38AM 1 point [-]

Perhaps women are less underrepresented on Less Wrong than may at first appear, and men are more likely to comment for some reason. Or perhaps women are less likely to choose visibly feminine usernames.

I think it's pretty frequent on the Internet, especially among those that have been around since the early-to-mid 1990s, to assume that everybody online is male by default until proven otherwise.

Being one of those, my first guess would be that the LW audience is > 90% male, but I'd love to see the results of an anonymous survey...

Comment author: taryneast 21 March 2011 02:53:34PM 2 points [-]

Less wrong survey is here

and the results are:

160 (96.4%) were male, 5 (3%) were female, and one chose not to reveal their gender.

Comment author: MichaelGR 24 March 2011 03:06:28AM 2 points [-]

Thank you.

Goes to show that nothing goes away on the internet; I posted the parent comment 2 years ago.

Comment author: Grognor 11 February 2012 08:55:57PM 0 points [-]

(Just pointing out to any futureland readers that the situation has changed slightly.)

Comment author: taryneast 24 March 2011 05:52:52PM 0 points [-]

Yeah - I saw it was an old comment... older than the survey. I figured I'd post it - in case anybody who came by later wanted to know.

Comment author: MichaelGR 26 March 2011 03:37:04AM 0 points [-]

Very cool of you. At least one person noticed!

Comment author: JGWeissman 16 April 2009 02:23:40AM 0 points [-]
Comment author: taryneast 21 March 2011 02:52:09PM -2 points [-]

:) ah xkcd... much, much love!