On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:49 AM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > We have heard a great deal lately about a "gender gap". Is there really a > gender gap? With 93% of editor not marking there gender known per > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-02-14/News_and_notes > <http://ref>might it just be that female editors prefer to keep there gender > unknown which seems like an equally valid explanation of the results. > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >
The conclusion from the study on which the figure of 12-14 or something women has several metodological flaws in my view. Mainly about the representativity of the sample from the survey See http://www.wikipediasurvey.org/docs/Wikipedia_Overview_15March2010-FINAL.pdf and http://www.wikipediasurvey.org/docs/Wikipedia_Age_Gender_30March%202010-FINAL-3.pdf If you take those numbers as unbiased estimators of sampled population, you come to the conclusion (from page5, 1st doc) that Wikipedia has the mindboggling amount of.. 200 thousand readers. But I guess it's useful to think of the conclusions there derived as accurate, for sake of discussion. Then, I don't want to get into problems (as that figure and the gendergap seem to have become sacred topics these days) so I will just not rock the boat, leaving those links for those with actual statistics knowledge to read. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
