Also, the fact that LW itself isn’t smiley friendly. An interesting project would be to gather data from the real life facebook pages of both males and females on LW and see if a discrepancy shows up there. People would have to volunteer their facebooks for you to look at which might cause a bit of a selection effect. (The less trusting/interpersonal types might be less likely to both volunteer their fb, and to use smileys)
The reason I say this, is because I severely limit my smiley usage on LW.
One user who’s part of the female dataset has already reported cutting out the smileys deliberately. As I say, I don’t put much faith in the results.
I did consider scraping lesswrong.com for data, but a) I wasn’t sure of the etiquette b) I don’t have a list of female users (maybe I can get them from the survey?) c) it’s a lot more coding.
Also, the fact that LW itself isn’t smiley friendly. An interesting project would be to gather data from the real life facebook pages of both males and females on LW and see if a discrepancy shows up there. People would have to volunteer their facebooks for you to look at which might cause a bit of a selection effect. (The less trusting/interpersonal types might be less likely to both volunteer their fb, and to use smileys)
The reason I say this, is because I severely limit my smiley usage on LW.
One user who’s part of the female dataset has already reported cutting out the smileys deliberately. As I say, I don’t put much faith in the results.
I did consider scraping lesswrong.com for data, but a) I wasn’t sure of the etiquette b) I don’t have a list of female users (maybe I can get them from the survey?) c) it’s a lot more coding.