On 14 August 2015 at 11:33, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 August 2015 at 09:58, Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Looking at "male-female" and "female-male", and considering the much-cited >> 15% female editor ratio, it seems women are much more overwrite-happy than >> men.
I'm just thinking this through again, as there is a logical flaw in statement. If we take a random sample space limited to just overwrites where men are overwriting women or women are overwriting men, then the ratio of men:women is irrelevant, given a large sample. Effectively even if men outnumber women by 80% or 90%, the numbers of overwrites of type "male-female" and "female-male" should be almost the same in /both directions/. If the figures are not similar, then other factors are at play than just that there are more men contributing to the project. Testing this theory, I went to the English Wikipedia database and checking over all time, found: +-------------+----------+ | sex | count(*) | +-------------+----------+ | female-male | 63 | | male-female | 127 | +-------------+----------+ Checking the all time figures for Commons shows: +-------------+----------+ | sex | count(*) | +-------------+----------+ | female-male | 1309 | | male-female | 2220 | +-------------+----------+ Quickly going to French (far less statistically significant): +-------------+----------+ | sex | count(*) | +-------------+----------+ | female-male | 1 | | male-female | 12 | +-------------+----------+ German: +-------------+----------+ | sex | count(*) | +-------------+----------+ | female-male | 6 | | male-female | 39 | +-------------+----------+ The conclusion has to be that women are at least /twice/ as likely to have an image overwritten by a man on our projects than the reverse happing. The numbers are sufficiently large for it to appear a meaningful result. Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
