Aurini comments on Of Gender and Rationality - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 April 2009 12:56AM

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Comment author: Aurini 16 April 2009 10:06:26AM 1 point [-]

This suggestion accounts for women being underrepresented, but not for their distinct absence (unless if several popular posters are, in fact, female).

Comment author: taryneast 20 March 2011 10:57:29PM *  1 point [-]

Um, Anna Salamon... Alicorn... I don't count as "popular" but those two are top 10 karma-wise, (Alicorn is third). I'm sure there are others.

There is a severe under-representation, but we're not entirely absent :)

Comment author: Aurini 21 March 2011 04:52:13PM 6 points [-]

2 year old comment. They may not have been as prominent back then (in fact, I think that was the post that made gender an issue here). :)

I'm trying to get Girlfriend into this site, because that will make her sexier.

Comment author: taryneast 04 June 2015 11:30:36PM 0 points [-]

They were prominent then too (I was there then too) :)

Comment author: [deleted] 05 January 2014 05:48:38PM 0 points [-]

2 year old comment. They may not have been as prominent back then (in fact, I think that was the post that made gender an issue here). :)

BTW, 8.4% of respondents to the 2011 survey were female, compared to 3% in 2009.