Last year had just below 2% transgender and 4% other. Either a slight increase in the number of trans people or a slightly higher percentage of trans people in the diaspora community than the LW core could explain it.
It’s difficult to conclude what that implies. One can tell a story about how high openness means people are more likely to identify as trans, or one can tell a story about how rationality helps one realize those sorts of things, or one can tell a story about how more young people are identifying as some sort of queer and the rationality community skews young.
I mean, you could run correlations with Openness to experience or with age, right? I guess there’s probably too small of a sample size to do a lot of interesting analysis with it, but I’m sure one could do some.
There’s a first order effect—trans people having higher openness—and a second order effect—high openness communities having more trans people—and I’m more confident of the second than I am of the first.
When it comes to age, a quick calculation of average by group (throwing out three age outliers):
Last year had just below 2% transgender and 4% other. Either a slight increase in the number of trans people or a slightly higher percentage of trans people in the diaspora community than the LW core could explain it.
It’s difficult to conclude what that implies. One can tell a story about how high openness means people are more likely to identify as trans, or one can tell a story about how rationality helps one realize those sorts of things, or one can tell a story about how more young people are identifying as some sort of queer and the rationality community skews young.
I mean, you could run correlations with Openness to experience or with age, right? I guess there’s probably too small of a sample size to do a lot of interesting analysis with it, but I’m sure one could do some.
There’s a first order effect—trans people having higher openness—and a second order effect—high openness communities having more trans people—and I’m more confident of the second than I am of the first.
When it comes to age, a quick calculation of average by group (throwing out three age outliers):