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Comment author: syllogism 03 June 2013 01:16:06PM 4 points [-]

Do you really think 1/3rd of users named gothgirl* would be male? I'd guess something like 1-10%, compared with 1-3% transsexualism on LW: http://lesswrong.com/lw/fp5/2012_survey_results/

Comment author: Desrtopa 03 June 2013 02:46:55PM 3 points [-]

On Less Wrong in particular, I would assign a high likelihood to various permutations of "gothgirl" being ironic, rather than sincere self expression of the user.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 03 June 2013 03:25:58PM *  1 point [-]

Yeah, sure. This is the internet. (Acknowledged that the base rate of transsexualism on LW is higher than I had expected.)