By the way, we will have no idea what the actual ratio is here on Hacker News even after many more poll responses are recorded. (Another comment already in the

By the way, we will have no idea what the actual ratio is here on Hacker News even after many more poll responses are recorded. (Another comment already in the thread points out that some respondents are voting more than once.) That's the defect of voluntary response polls. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5482013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5482013 for a recent posting of a FAQ on the subject. I have no doubt that there are more male than female participants here, and no idea what the actual ratio is. (Most online communities I participate in, including my circle of Facebook friends, have a strong female majority. That's because many of those online communities pertain to education policy, and mothers care more about that issue than fathers, on average, at least as to online participation in discussion of policy.)