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Survey Shows More Women Blogging Than Men
thefickler writes "The blogosphere has hit the mainstream, according to a new survey, which reveals that 80% of Americans know what a blog is, 50% regularly visit blogs, and 8% publish their own blog. The survey also reveals that more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14% of men."
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Chicks are all "yap yap yap" and dudes are like "why don't you go write in your blog, I'm trying to play Xbox".
So one in ten people who knows what a blog is, HAS a blog.
That's too many blogs.
These stats seem to hold up with what i am seeing on the stats for Jonesblog in that the majority of readers seem to be women looking for recipes , pictures of animals and interestingly, travel while the majority of searches from males tend to be stuff like guns , airplanes , cars and an inordinate amount of traffic searching for hot women that somehow hit this page . Stereotypes are sad, but true I suppose in some areas. The interesting thing that really surprised me was that I had to include a notice in my FAQ on my "status" as I've had more than one unsolicited request for a date from visitors to the blog.
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that any article summary mentioning the word "blogosphere" resultants in your average slashdot reader to be 79.993093 more likely not to RTFA because the term "blogosphere" was mentioned. Seriously. Kill it with fire. I hate the word.
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Does anyone actually give a flying fuck as to what bullshit advertising is being spouted from these blogs? And who the fuck even reads blogs anymore, it's like masterbating into someone's language. You self-absorbed fuckers.
Then hopefully it will STOP THEIR YAPPING all the time! Damn broads....
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100% of people who took this survey are likely to answer surveys, but how many people who don't answer surveys are likely to have blogs hmm?
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OMG women like mindless gab and talking about their thoughts and feelings more than men?! That has thrown my entire perception of reality into chaos.
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Just curious.
Come on, guys. Get your facts straight.
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What percentage of blogs are actually READ with a break-down of male/female? I think blogs by women who post a hot picture of themselves would possibly be a bit overrepresented. I know a few nerds who read a chick's blog just because she also happens to be a swimsuit model. Personally, I would prefer to read a blog that was actually interesting.
What an insensitive summary, but I guess that's to be expected from the patriarchal and male-dominated Slashdot blog. So for the last time you unenlightend masoginists, Bloggers are male, and Bloghers are female. Sheesh.
The body of the article states:
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"The survey also revealed that more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14 % of men."
This does not equate to more blogger being women. If there are twice the number of males reading blogs than females, then given the above ratio, 40% more men would be blogging than women. Unfortunately this article doesn't tell us the number of males reading blogs versus females, so we can't draw any conclusion either way. And I'd guess that there's more men reading blogs based on my use of Slashdot and Digg, but I really have no broad data to back me up.
The only thing this survey shows is that of blog readers who fill out surveys, females tend to blog more than males. And even then, the margin of error on a population size of 10,000,000 bloggers with their 1,000 user sample size is 3.1%. So the statistic is nearly meaningless
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You misread that, is says that 20% of women who have visited blogs have one of their own.
It's because women believe people care about all the funky crap rattling around in their heads; haven't you spent time with any of them?
Oh wait......nevermind.
Maybe this means if I teach my wife how to blog, I'll get to play some BF2142 when I get home instead of hearing her describe the day's office politics in excruciating detail.
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Need to die.
We had fine words for ALL of these concepts before these verbal-STDs began infecting the series of tubes that is the internet. The Slashdot summery was like gonorrhea in the eye
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" Survey Shows More Women Blogging Than Men"
On the intenet, men are men, women are men, and little kids are fbi agents.
Inquiring minds want to know.
It isn't a memory leak. It's an object life-span issue.
Damn hippies.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Blog : A web page updated by a person on a regular basis. Before 2004 this was known simply as a "home page" but was changed because the original term did not sound good enough when used on fox news.
Blogosphere : All the web pages updated by people on a regular basis. Before 2004 this was known as "the internet" or "a series of tubes". Now the term is used to organize the internet. All blogs fall into the blogoshere category, the rest fall under the porn category.
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Where does one draw a line between blog and "online diary"? I didn't notice a definition when I skimmed TFA. I would think that things like LJ skew the results quite a bit, since lots of teens are liable to hit up these sites and the post to them every once in a blue moon.
I call total bullshit on these statistics.
8% write their own blogs? Twenty million people?!? Impossible. No way, no how. Now maybe, just maybe 8% of some select subclass of internet users (e.g. 8% of people who spend more than 4 hours/day on the internet, have a college education, a median income greater than $####, own at least one foreign-made car, read WIred magazine, etc.) write blogs, but to think that many ordinary Americans are writing their own blogs... nope. I don't buy it.
And if you doubt this for one moment, just try to remember the last time you stood in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles. See how silly it seems thinking 4/5 of them could explain what a blog is? And to think nearly 1/10 writes their own? Nyet.
Very nice reading; a girl who in an entertaining way writes about her frustrations at Walmart.
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73.3 percent of all statistics are made up.
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Women have been found to whine more than men.
Surprising how many men have blogs, considering that the ratio of men/women keeping diaries is, say 1/9.
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More women are attention whores online than men! Who'd a thunk it?
How ya like dat?
"The Internet":
Where men are men,
Women are men,
And all the children are undercover FBI agents.
Gay people indeed talk a lot. Wil actually alluded to homosexuality in an interview after he starred in the movie Python.
a lot of librarians blog and there are tons of female librarians.
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"The survey also reveals that more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14% of men.""
Sorry, visiting blogs doesn't make you a blogger. I'm a blogger. I write blogs that are read by over ten thousand people a day - EACH. I make my living writing blogs. And if you don't, you're not a blogger - you're just a wannabe.
well I personally would rather read articles than blogs; because I like news not gossip; and I like facts not opinions. Almost no blog is written or even pretends to have any sorta of investigation work or journalistic integrity in them; thus they are as worthless words from some random person that doesn't really even know what they are talking about, sitting somewhere behind a computer spewing whatever dribble comes into their feeble minds. I mean, just look at what "news sites" are trying to pass off as news in their feeds..
Men are less likely to become pregnant than women.
You heard it here first!
Come on! Did somebody really have to do a survey to figure this one out?
... blogs are the new attentive boyfriend who she can cheat with while she's with you. When YOU won't talk to them about their feelings because you really don't care about how horrible it was that her co-worker bought a pair of shoes just like hers after she had already shown hers off at work, she can go yap to a bunch of other estrogen driven goofballs who take that type of shit very seriously. Most of them will invariably be effeminate gay men who will pour their own pathetically wounded hearts into comments about fashion issues, and/or horny virgins who will feign sympathy in an attempt to garner long distance wank fests.
So after she blows off her steam and has her fill of stuff you don't care about, she'll need someone who smells of sweat and cheetoes and football and cars and even Xboxes, just to wash all the stink off after spending an hour or two gushing to that perfume laden fantasy world.
Of course, all you geeks will never have to worry about this. Level 65 Death Knights don't really let women near their PCs, after all. Or is it that women don't want to be near the PCs of level 65 Death Knights?
I forget.
No, I didn't go read the article
"20% of women WHO HAVE VISITED BLOGS have their own blog versus 14% of men."
Even if I assume that it is "14% of men who have visited blogs," that statement is meaningless unless we know whether more men have visited blogs or not. If 14% of 2 Million men have blogs that's 280,000 men with blogs which would be more than 20% of 1 Million women who have visited blogs.
I made up the numbers, but the point is that we have to have the full story. The numbers we were given does not prove that more women blog than men.
that's how I see it anyway . . .
...what percentage of either gender feels the overwhelming urge to vomit every time they hear the word "blogosphere"?
If I don't put anything here, will anyone recognize me anymore?
More women the same way there seem to be more "women" on irc trying to chat with you?
I think this has some merit. I know I only write blogs when I'm pretending to be a woman....
Blogging is so easy, even women can do it!
(Or are we done with that joke now?)
The survey also reveals that more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14% of men."
Wrong. This just means that more American women who visit blogs have their own blogs. Please do not read more into the data than what is actually there.
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If the low intellectual tone of some of the comments in this thread are anything to go by, I would say that there are virtually no women using Slashdot, and to be honest, I can see why...
Why wasn't this "from the chatty-cathy dept."?
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I highly doubt it. Let me guess -- they conducted this survey ON THE INTERNET. So their sample is limited to exactly the same group of people who would probably know what a blog is. Somebody needs to re-take basic statistics...
I could be wrong -- I can't RTFA because it's Slashdotted.
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OK, so the conclusions in the article may be a bit off, although I'm not really surprised if women are more common bloggers. If I go beyond the geeky tech blogs, based on what I'm seeing here on e.g. Swedish blog community sites, there's an ocean of blogs out there and a whole lot seem to be ran by women. It's not exactly the gender ratio you see on sites like this one. :-p
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Everyone seems to be caught up on the statistics (there are plenty of statistical errors the article makes, for sure). I don't know about a lot of you but I know far more girls that blog than guys that do. Let's face it, girls tend to be chatty and want to share details about what's going on with them. It probably sounds pretty gay but I actually enjoy reading their blogs more than guys'.
I wouldn't mind listening to them yap if they had something interesting to say... *ducks*
I think averages aren't actually stereotypes, though. The point when it becomes a stereotype and possibly sexist or racist is when it's extrapolated to "all X are/do/like Y" or the equivalent "you're an X, therefore you are/do/like Y". A lot of people extrapolate from statistics and averages to that, but it's that extrapolation that's the fallacy, not the statistic or average itself.
E.g., consider this "most insects have 6 legs, spiders are insects, therefore spiders have 6 legs." The fallacy there is the implied extrapolation from "most" (i.e., a variant of "some") to "all", not the "most insects have 6 legs" premise.
Ditto, "women like pink" is a stereotype, especially if it's taken to the point of "you're a woman, therefore you like pink", but "more women than men like pink" is just a statistic. And yes, we have a statistic showing that, for westerners. (For Chinese it's much more of a close call, since it's a lucky colour in their culture, though.) I think the same applies to blogs, recipes, physical strength, or anything else. If you steer clear of the usual extrapolation from "some" to "all", it's IMHO not really a stereotype.
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I mean.. I got a slashdot blog, and I will not write how I feel today or that stuff because honestly it's too gay.
I write only neat stuff that comes up my mind when I'm in my own journal. If you want, you can check my journal out and let me know what to write about and if my journal is nice or not (if you like linux stuff you will like the basics of it, but there are not much articles).
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...mentioning the word "blogosphere" resultants in your average slashdot reader to be 79.993093 more likely not to RTFA...
How about we just call it 80% for a "rough estimate"?
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I have a personal blog, and have had for many years. Most of the personal blogs I see are by women and all my "blog friends" are women (usually girls in their teens & 20's). A lot of it revolves around making layouts, talking about your life, girl-oriented topics, making new friends/penpals, etc. I just can't picture a lot of guys being into the same thing... *shock*!
Just looking at our young families class at church, there are a ton of women bloggers but it's all about their kids and families to let others in their ever busy sphere know what's going on.
Many load about 10,000 images and are all on a single page. Every once in while one will turn up for me on a Google search that I will look into. Many of these take forever to load and occasionally bog my browser down so much I have to kill it. Spread things across multiple pages or show things based on date will ya?!
Let's handle this the same way that women in games is being handled. Oh NOES! We've just GOT to get more men blogging and reading blogs! Maybe we should offer scholarships for men so they DO MORE BLOGGING! How can we ever get the males to catch up? Let's go find a clan of male bloggers and hold them up as an example so more males start doing it.
(I'm trying to point out that there *are* differences between males and females in very large scale stereotypical ways, and that we are *not* the same as some would have us think. Nothing wrong with those differences, but they DO exist.)
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Hmmm, haven't seen a comment yet that started with "I'm a woman, and I think..."
The survey also revealed that more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14 % of men.
INCORRECT! yes, more women that visit blogs are bloggers, but more men visit blogs so the total number of men bloggers are bigger than women bloggers
0,2y are women who have blogs
0,14x are men who have blogs
x= number of men who visit blogs
y= number of women who visit blogs
let 66,6...% of blog visitors be men
let 33,3...% of blog visitors be women
so 0,2y = 0,066...
0,14x = 0,0933...
0,0933... is bigger than 0,0666
so more men are bloggers...
the author must learn conditional probabilty!!
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The survey isn't of all Americans, it's all Americans with Internet access. So the gross numbers are skewed, analysis here: http://www.encoreopus.com/statistics/blogger-stati stics-lying-with-numbers.html