Are you outside of the 3 categories I mentioned in the time section? Most people who read LW have relatively unstructured lives (students, unemployed, etc) or are computer professionals. Are you one of those? Perhaps you just don’t have any close friends who are adults to see how much of a time suck wives, children, and full-time jobs are. Being smart doesn’t create extra hours in someone’s day. Working full-time, commuting, sleeping, and dealing with a family pretty much maxes out anyone no matter how clever they are (or were).
Also, I had doubts that atheism and NT could be independent, but I looked hard for evidence that they were related and instead found only studies showing it wasn’t correlated. I’d be really grateful if you could find correct data showing the opposite if that’s in fact true.
seriously though, which does LW have more of: women, or gay/bisexual men? I honestly don’t know.
I know that polls like this seem to be generally frowned upon at LW, and this is probably a silly place to put a poll, but I’m going to go ahead and start one here anyway.
I’m a bisexual male, but can’t upvote my own comment.
So the results so far are: 4 women, 4 gay/bisexual men, and 5 heterosexual men.
This means that that there are approximately as many women on LW as there are gay/bisexual men. And almost half of the men on LW are gay/bisexual.
And yes, I know that there are probably several reasons why this poll’s results are biased or otherwise unreliable, but at least now we have some data.
One obvious problem with this poll: it contradicts a previous survey, which said:
“(96.4%) were male, 5 (3%) were female, and one chose not to reveal their gender.”
so it looks like there were lots of heterosexual males who didn’t bother voting.
Sorry about being flippant. I understand that you want to reduce the smack of sexism around here and that’s almost certainly a good thing.
Incidentally, if you have any data or statistics which could help me show something different than the 2x diminishing of solitary leisure activities of those who are married, I’d be grateful for the help in correcting my misunderstanding of this issue. I really prefer to not have to believe this if there were reliable evidence in the other direction.
Are you outside of the 3 categories I mentioned in the time section? Most people who read LW have relatively unstructured lives (students, unemployed, etc) or are computer professionals. Are you one of those? Perhaps you just don’t have any close friends who are adults to see how much of a time suck wives, children, and full-time jobs are. Being smart doesn’t create extra hours in someone’s day. Working full-time, commuting, sleeping, and dealing with a family pretty much maxes out anyone no matter how clever they are (or were).
Also, I had doubts that atheism and NT could be independent, but I looked hard for evidence that they were related and instead found only studies showing it wasn’t correlated. I’d be really grateful if you could find correct data showing the opposite if that’s in fact true.
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Forgot about gay LW members’ husbands. Sorry. ;)
Upvoted for being funny. Come on folks, if you can’t laugh about marginalizing minorities, what can you laugh about?
seriously though, which does LW have more of: women, or gay/bisexual men? I honestly don’t know.
I know that polls like this seem to be generally frowned upon at LW, and this is probably a silly place to put a poll, but I’m going to go ahead and start one here anyway.
upvote this comment if you’re a heterosexual male
upvote this comment if you’re female
upvote this comment if you’re a gay or bisexual male
I’m a bisexual male, but can’t upvote my own comment.
So the results so far are: 4 women, 4 gay/bisexual men, and 5 heterosexual men.
This means that that there are approximately as many women on LW as there are gay/bisexual men. And almost half of the men on LW are gay/bisexual.
And yes, I know that there are probably several reasons why this poll’s results are biased or otherwise unreliable, but at least now we have some data.
One obvious problem with this poll: it contradicts a previous survey, which said:
“(96.4%) were male, 5 (3%) were female, and one chose not to reveal their gender.”
so it looks like there were lots of heterosexual males who didn’t bother voting.
Unfortunately, we don’t know whether people who read the discussion section have significant differences from those who don’t.
downvote this comment if you find this poll annoying
upvote this comment if you somehow don’t belong in any of the other categories listed here.
downvote this comment if you upvoted one of the other comments
downvote this comment if you find this poll annoying
upvote this comment if you’re a heterosexual male
Sorry about being flippant. I understand that you want to reduce the smack of sexism around here and that’s almost certainly a good thing.
Incidentally, if you have any data or statistics which could help me show something different than the 2x diminishing of solitary leisure activities of those who are married, I’d be grateful for the help in correcting my misunderstanding of this issue. I really prefer to not have to believe this if there were reliable evidence in the other direction.