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It might be that those professions are so dominated by one sex that there is very little data. Finding a female welder, pipefitter or lineman... er, person, is
by douche 11y ago
It might be that those professions are so dominated by one sex that there is very little data. Finding a female welder, pipefitter or lineman... er, person, is like finding a unicorn.
- mklim 11y agoThere's enough women in the profession to have female -> female lines originating out of them, though. The implication is that there's a huge majority of queer women in them, to the point where heterosexual ones won't even show up on a visualization despite how much of a minority GLBT people are in the general population. (Or, alternatively: heterosexual women in those professions don't marry for whatever reason, and queer ones do.)
- henrikschroder 11y agoNo, the visualization is adjusted such that it always shows at least one female->female connection, and one male->male connection. So it might very well be the case that there are a lot more heterosexual female welders than homosexual female welders, it's just that there are so many male welders that their connections dominate the top five.
- mklim 11y agoOh, I didn't realize the visualization was adjusted like that. That makes more sense.
- yorwba 11y agoThey say in the fine print: Same-sex occupation/relationship matchups weren’t common enough to reach the top five in any occupation. So the chart also highlights the top male-male and female-female job matchups for each occupation. In other words, female -> female pairings are overemphasized in the chart, otherwise you would not see them at all.l