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> Also my impression is that this list is overwhelmingly male, although I guess that's not too surprising most of the internet is overwhelmingly male, and tech
by ekianjo 4y ago
> Also my impression is that this list is overwhelmingly male, although I guess that's not too surprising
most of the internet is overwhelmingly male, and tech-related places even more so.
- wizofaus 4y agoSource (for the former claim)?
- chubot 4y agoAre you stuck in 1999? :-P I don't think the Internet is overwhelmingly male
- labster 4y ago
- ekianjo 4y ago> I don't think the Internet is overwhelmingly male What you think and what it is may be two different things
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- Thorrez 4y agoAs of 2021, the US, 94% of men use the internet, compared with 93% of women. As of 2019, in the world, 58.3% of men use the internet, compared with 48.4% of women. https://www.statista.com/statistics/327130/internet-penetration-usa-gender/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/327130/internet-penetrat... https://itu.foleon.com/itu/measuring-digital-development/gender-gap https://itu.foleon.com/itu/measuring-digital-development/gen...
- forty 4y agoA more interesting statistics for this discussion would be to have the percentage of users producing publicly visible content. "Using the internet" doesn't mean much (not that I assume the result would be too different, just saying that it would be more meaningful)
- wizofaus 4y agoYes, I'd assume the claim referred to content creators. But claiming it's "overwhelming male" requires evidence (reddit stats are proof that there are substantial sites where this is true, but what percentage of the internet is reddit?)
- Thorrez 4y agoI'm not sure there's necessarily a big difference between the way people post publicly visible content and non-publicly-visible content. Posting a comment on reddit vs posting a comment on Facebook. Posting a meme on reddit vs posting a meme on Facebook. Posting a comment on a public Facebook post vs posting a comment on a private Facebook post. Posting a post in a public Facebook group vs posting a post in a private Facebook group. Posting a comment on a YouTube video vs posting a comment on a Friend's share of a Facebook video. Posting a comment on a public Facebook video vs posting a comment on a friend's private reshare of that same Facebook video. Posting a picture on reddit vs posting a picture on Facebook. Posting a picture to a public Instagram profile vs posting a picture to a private Instagram profile. Posting a picture to Twitter where Twitter tries to make everyone log in before viewing the picture. Sending money with some message on Venmo back when all transactions and messages were public by default (up to last year).
- ekianjo 4y ago"using the internet" is a binary metric. Look at how many hours are spent on the internet by males vs females, and who creates content on the internet.
- magnio 4y agoUh, if by "most of the internet" you mean Reddit, 4chan, and HN, then sure.
- Thorrez 4y agoI'm not even sure if I'd call reddit overwhelmingly male. It's 63.8% male. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1255182/distribution-of-users-on-reddit-worldwide-gender/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1255182/distribution-of-...
- ben_w 4y agoI would describe a nearly 2:1 ratio as "overwhelming".
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- zizee 4y agoI don't want to be that person, but you speak with such confidence, as if what you're saying is a commonly held definition of a word. 2:1 is definately lopsided, and "overwhelming" is not a precise defined term in regards to numbers, but a 2:1 ratio does not really match what i think when i hear the word overwhelming.
- allarm 4y agoIt’s actually closer to 3:2 and I would not describe it as “overwhelming”.
- Cpoll 4y ago> 63.8% 3:2 is 60%, 2:1 is 66.6~%, therefore the median is 63.3~%. 63.8% is above the median, so strictly speaking it's slightly closer to 2:1 than 3:2.
- baisq 4y agoDepends on the corners of the internet that you visit. Tiktok, Instagram, and all vapid places like that have many more females than males.
- cauefcr 4y agoAh, yes, thing I do not like is vapid, and half the population is also vapid. :thumbsup: "females" is just the cherry on top.
- baisq 4y agoThat is a distortion of my entire comment. There are sites where the user split per sex is around 2:1. The female-dominated ones are generally more vapid than the male-dominated ones. You can check yourself. That is not to say that male-dominated ones are never vapid. To put it in other words, I would say that almost all female-dominated ones are vapid, while "only" the majority of the male-dominated ones are vapid.
- implements 4y agoBritain’s https://www.mumsnet.com/ https://www.mumsnet.com/ is far from vapid: “When Mumsnet speaks, politicians listen” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12238447 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12238447 Elsewhere: “Professor Pedersen believes Mumsnet’s popularity is partly down to it being a place where women can talk freely about politics without being drowned out by male voices or being subjected to the nastier side of other social media platforms.”
- teddyh 4y agoYou found a single exception to baisq’s proposed general principle. This is not a good enough argument to refute it.
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