I apologize for sarcastically nitpicking on John’s final point and for
ignoring the first part of his message.
His insights on the experiences of OPF were interesting and useful.
And looking at some of the other responses, it seems that there is
actually some useful data out there that could be analyzed to provide
some answers to the original question. I wonder if anyone would be
willing to take up that task.
Moving forward, it should be relatively easy to collect current data.
All that would be required would be to set up an online questionnaire
and then promoting it widely across all the various origami
organizations. Granted, that would skew the data towards people with
internet access, but it would probably be able to generate more data
than previously gathered.
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On Aug 12, 2022, at 12:30, jscu...@ohiopaperfolders.com wrote:
On the question of gender (use any definition of gender here) differences in
origami, we at Ohio Paper Folders have a somewhat unique experience in this, as
we have taught literally tens of thousands of random people in hospitals,
libraries, and especially at the Ohio Asian Festival, Columbus Arts festival
and several similar events.
We pay to have a tent there and we teach the public beginner models at no
charge.
We have seen essentially NO bias of gender, age, race, education level, income
class, native born vs immigrant...Obviously downtown Columbus arts festival
trends towards higher income people, but pretty broad racially. Asian festival
trends towards higher non-white percentage (both because of the type of
festival and the fact that the venue borders a neighborhood that is very high
percentage African American). But...both no real gender bias.
And at the CenterFold origami convention based solely on the names of attendees this year
was 52% "female". 2019 was 54%. Some of those are non-binary, trans etc.
Just going by eyeballing the list of names, so hardly scientific...but should be close
enough for jazz.
John Scully
