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Poll: What is your gender?
I'm interested to see what kind of demographics we have here on HN. I suspect the majority are male but it would be interesting to see an approximate percentage of females.
- TimothyBurgess 16y agoThis actually goes with my other poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175588 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175588
- corin_ 16y agoGiven HN polls allow users to pick more than one option, you could have had a "What is your age/gender?" With both Gender and Age options, letting people vote on the two relevant answers.
- TimothyBurgess 16y agoOh I did not know that. Thanks! That's good to know in the future. I assumed HN automatically removed your previous vote similar to radio buttons.
- abyssknight 16y agoYou know, its kind of naive to use a binary to represent gender. Just throwing that out there.
- TimothyBurgess 16y agoI'll add "other"... :) Sorry about that!
- ryandvm 16y agoWas probably easier than: "On a scale of 1 to 10, please describe your sexual identity as it relates to the presence of traits and characteristics formerly associated with the expression of the human Y chromosome."
- secret 16y agoI realize you say this jokingly, but seeing that at this there are almost as many others as female (14 v 16) I'm curious how they define it. If I had to guess it would be mostly male->female given the overwhelming number of males, but I have no idea.
- notyourwork 16y agoBy "What is everyone's gender?" I think you mean "What is your gender?" I do not think "everyone" has singular gender.
- TimothyBurgess 16y agoGood eye... I'll change the age poll's title as well. ;)
- Vivtek 16y agoAt a current 98:6:2 ratio, I'm thinking "everyone" here has a pretty clear gender.
- astrodust 16y agoI've often wondered if the tech industry has a statistically higher other ratio than others, or if people are just more open or honest.
- ck2 16y ago6 months ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1571216 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1571216 2 years ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591309 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591309 and leaving this here if helpful to anyone doing other surveys http://google.com/search?q=site:ycombinator.com+poll http://google.com/search?q=site:ycombinator.com+poll
- shawnee_ 16y agoInteresting to see the progression of these numbers over time. male:female (other) @30 minutes it is 200:10 (7) @15 minutes it was 42:2 (0) http://hackeress.com/hackeress/etc/genders.png http://hackeress.com/hackeress/etc/genders.png
- TimothyBurgess 16y agoI was thinking the exact same thing. It's a little too late now though to get worthwhile results, I think. Perhaps a year from now I'll ask again with a script ready. :)
- niels_olson 16y agoEven looking back at the older surveys, looks like the ratio is somewhere around 20:1. This makes the military look positively feminist.
- ASLwithheld 16y ago20 years later and it is still a/s/l? sigh
- kbob 16y agoASL = Age/Sex/???
- NickPollard 16y agoLocation.
- shubber 16y agoWell, that's a huge surprise. Something to remember when topics of gender do come up: we are most of us male, and that influences the outlook.
- allard 16y agomy sex is male, my gender is man
- cafard 16y agomasculine
- donnawarellp 16y agojust a moment, ah, ah, ah, ooooh, uhhh. oh. oh yes, female. idiots