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Agreed, those charts do a great job of showing what's going on in CS. But it's also useful to look at percentages because college enrollment has gone up severel
by rhiever 12y ago
Agreed, those charts do a great job of showing what's going on in CS. But it's also useful to look at percentages because college enrollment has gone up severely in the past decade, so the increase in the raw number of women in CS could merely be because there's more people in college in general. Showing the percentages communicates if women have proportionally enrolled more/less in CS.
- StefanKarpinski 12y agoAbsolutely – the percentage of women vs. men over time is definitely interesting, but taken by itself can be misleading. What would be informative, which none of these charts show, is the percentage of women (respectively men) choosing CS out of the total number of women (respectively men) – over time. That would factor out the growth in college attendance.