Demographics - Gender

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 16 June 07 11:16 am

What can I say. It's the social scientist in me.

Please complete the poll out of interest. Would be nice to know what the division is.

Please select:

Male - if your male and use this forum exclusively. (Not a shared account)
Female - if your female and use this forum exclusively. (Not a shared account)
Shared account - If you and your partner share an account.

PM me if your not sure.

homedg · Post by **homedg** » 16 June 07 5:53 pm

Male.
65% [ 23 ]
Female.
14% [ 5 ]
Partners sharing an account.
20% [ 7 ]

Total Votes : 35

So does this mean that 65% of people who vote in Polls are Male?

Team Falling Numerals · Post by **Team Falling Numerals** » 16 June 07 6:38 pm

homedg wrote:
Male.
65% [ 23 ]
Female.
14% [ 5 ]
Partners sharing an account.
20% [ 7 ]

Total Votes : 35
So does this mean that 65% of people who vote in Polls are Male?

No 65% of people who voted in this poll voted that they are Male.

There is no way of verifying that each person's vote is accurate so unfortunately only limited conclusions can be drawn.

I voted before I read Bronze's instructions and now that I have read them I know that my vote is incorrect.

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 16 June 07 6:55 pm

Another social scientist.

fehrgo · Post by **fehrgo** » 16 June 07 7:51 pm

Also, each person who votes shared gets two votes.

Grank · Post by **Grank** » 16 June 07 7:55 pm

Bronze wrote:social scientist

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Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 16 June 07 8:08 pm

No - It will only let them have a single vote and so really they cancel out. I put that option in so couples who share an account don't skew the results by choosing the top option first hoping they do get two votes. They also get to see the results of the poll.

Been a few hours and where at 3:1 Male to Female. That better than I thought guessing that geocaching was far more male centric. I was thinking it would be more like 5:1.

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 16 June 07 10:55 pm

Geocaching may well be 5:1.

Unfortunately, thats not what you sampled.

What you sampled was the gender breakdown of geocaching forum users.

I'd suggest there may be a significant difference between the two.

Hmmm. My stats exam on Monday says that I should be able to figure that.

Bunya · Post by **Bunya** » 16 June 07 11:15 pm

Cached wrote:What you sampled was the gender breakdown of geocaching forum users.

. . .who bothered to vote.

In general females are more likely to take part in surveys.

Q. Who says?

A. I do.

Q. How do you run a survey to find out which gender is more likely to take part in a survey?

swampgecko · Post by **swampgecko** » 17 June 07 12:05 am

And if someone deleted their GCA cookie and voted again... and again... and again... how could that be factored in? And who says they voted correctly twice out of the three times.........

I bet you wish you never brought this up eh Bronze??

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 17 June 07 3:59 am

Quite the contrary.

We use what we have available. This is the simplest option and really it only a guide, not an engineering feat with peoples lives at stake.

Yes I realise Sam that I'm only polling the forum. Probably wouldn't be too hard to do gender for geocaching itself. Choose possibly 100 logs made randomly over the week and email the caches to find out the gender or group demographic of those who took part. Again it would be perfect but get the sample big enough you could get a reasonable idea regardless of how people might load the response.

The numbers are interesting indeed. What I'm finding amazing is the size of the sample and yet the poll is really only newly posted. This says a lot of people come in to read the forum and only a small proportion of them actually post on a regular basis.

Interesting.

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 17 June 07 4:05 am

Bunya wrote:
Q. How do you run a survey to find out which gender is more likely to take part in a survey?

Walk up and down a street and ask people...

Surveyor Q. Would you be interested in taking part in a survey?

Respondent A. Yes

Surveyor. Thank you (Walks off noting gender if determinable)

A little later.

Surveyor Q. Would you be interested in taking part in a survey?

Respondent A. No

Surveyor. Thank you (Walks off noting gender if determinable).

Do this a while and keep a tally of Yes V No against Gender.

Don't know how this would go past the ethics committee. They would probably rule that if the respondent said no you can't count them.

Team Wibble · Post by **Team Wibble** » 17 June 07 8:11 am

How about determining gender bias based on people's bias of gender identity....
(Okay, that makes not much sense, but it is 6:30am on a Sunday).
Team Wibble is a male&female couple. Of the two, Miss Wibble is the far more keen cacher. Mr Wibble is often along for the ride, or the one made to climb up (or down) to the tricky ones.
Miss Wibble is also the one likely to post in the forums 99.95 percent of the time.
I've encountered several instances on the forums and in my logs for caches where people have assumed that I'm male (or that it was the male half of the team talking).

I myself have incorrectly assumed that some cachers are male until I receive an email from them, etc.

These assumptions that most cachers are male are probably based on observation in general.

Therefore, most cachers are male.

Of course, correlation does not imply causality. I need to do a random double blind survey.

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 17 June 07 8:23 am

Well I doubt a forum poll could be called proof but it might serve as a nice reminder that the other gender is near.

I know that the other forum I'm in (all 40 odd member) is totally male centric. Some posting behaviors might have to change should a lady ever register.

And now for something completely different.

Team Falling Numerals · Post by **Team Falling Numerals** » 17 June 07 9:11 am

Bronze wrote:
And now for something completely different.

Ah one of my favourite's. I used this as an example to my lecture group when I last taught at JCU. Some had forgotten what correlation was all about so out came the Pastafarian view of things. Nothing to do with the Capital Asset Pricing Model which is what we were meant to be focussing on but it got the point across.

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