It’s not like your username sounds obviously feminine either, so how confident you are about whether a given user (except the obvious ones, say lukeprog or NancyLebovitz) is male or female?
I don’t think LWers collaborate to write the survey (correct me if I’m wrong, though)...please don’t generalize the decisions of a small group to the entire community.
Edit: Oh, sorry, didn’t realize you were the OP. lol. So you wouldn’t know...and I’m not sure either.
Well, given that LW is/was* predominantly appealing to STEM-types, with a focus on computer science-y topics (artificial intelligence), decision theory etc., it’s no wonder that the gender gap here reflects the gender gap in e.g. computer science colleges:
Figures from the Computing Research Association Taulbee Survey indicate that less than 12% of Computer Science bachelor’s degrees were awarded to women at US PhD-granting institutions in 2010-11. (Source)
It’s not like your username sounds obviously feminine either, so how confident you are about whether a given user (except the obvious ones, say lukeprog or NancyLebovitz) is male or female?
But yes, according to the last survey, only around 10% of the people here are women, and even fewer among the most prolific contributors.
I don’t think LWers collaborate to write the survey (correct me if I’m wrong, though)...please don’t generalize the decisions of a small group to the entire community.
Edit: Oh, sorry, didn’t realize you were the OP. lol. So you wouldn’t know...and I’m not sure either.
Well, given that LW is/was* predominantly appealing to STEM-types, with a focus on computer science-y topics (artificial intelligence), decision theory etc., it’s no wonder that the gender gap here reflects the gender gap in e.g. computer science colleges:
Edit: * “was” because Harry Potter!