Note that this may be an unrepresentative sample. Both non-standard gendered individuals and transhumanists are often groups considered to have disproportionate internet footprint and compared to their actual size. Given that, using this data to decide that one minority is “slightly smaller” than the other seems dubious. Similar remarks may apply to the academic footprint (although my impression is that postgenderism and related ideas are much more common in academia than transhumanism.)
Which is why I wasn’t using the data to say “The postgenderism movement is 68.3% as much as the tranhumanism movement” or some-such. Because that, yes, would be insufficient data to make that claim.
Instead I used the data to say “Both things are being discussed. Transhumanism probably more so”. For which I think Google results are, in fact, sufficient to make that claim.
My objection was to the notion that these are useful statistics for evaluating how many people are discussing the issues. Given how close the numbers are, given the proportionality problems, and given that for one of the numbers one actually gets fewer results (Postgender v. transhuman although that one is probably less of a good measure because postgender is also an adjective whereas the general adjective form of transhumanist is transhumanist), I don’t think concluding anything about the size of the groups discussing it is justified from this data even in the weak way you have done so here.
Note that this may be an unrepresentative sample. Both non-standard gendered individuals and transhumanists are often groups considered to have disproportionate internet footprint and compared to their actual size. Given that, using this data to decide that one minority is “slightly smaller” than the other seems dubious. Similar remarks may apply to the academic footprint (although my impression is that postgenderism and related ideas are much more common in academia than transhumanism.)
Which is why I wasn’t using the data to say “The postgenderism movement is 68.3% as much as the tranhumanism movement” or some-such. Because that, yes, would be insufficient data to make that claim.
Instead I used the data to say “Both things are being discussed. Transhumanism probably more so”. For which I think Google results are, in fact, sufficient to make that claim.
My objection was to the notion that these are useful statistics for evaluating how many people are discussing the issues. Given how close the numbers are, given the proportionality problems, and given that for one of the numbers one actually gets fewer results (Postgender v. transhuman although that one is probably less of a good measure because postgender is also an adjective whereas the general adjective form of transhumanist is transhumanist), I don’t think concluding anything about the size of the groups discussing it is justified from this data even in the weak way you have done so here.