Perhaps women are less underrepresented on Less Wrong than may at first appear, and men are more likely to comment for some reason. Or perhaps women are less likely to choose visibly feminine usernames.
I think it’s pretty frequent on the Internet, especially among those that have been around since the early-to-mid 1990s, to assume that everybody online is male by default until proven otherwise.
Being one of those, my first guess would be that the LW audience is > 90% male, but I’d love to see the results of an anonymous survey...
I think it’s pretty frequent on the Internet, especially among those that have been around since the early-to-mid 1990s, to assume that everybody online is male by default until proven otherwise.
Being one of those, my first guess would be that the LW audience is > 90% male, but I’d love to see the results of an anonymous survey...
Less wrong survey is here
and the results are:
Thank you.
Goes to show that nothing goes away on the internet; I posted the parent comment 2 years ago.
Yeah—I saw it was an old comment… older than the survey. I figured I’d post it—in case anybody who came by later wanted to know.
Very cool of you. At least one person noticed!
(Just pointing out to any futureland readers that the situation has changed slightly.)
http://xkcd.com/322/
Did you mean to post that somewhere else?
:) ah xkcd… much, much love!