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."

Comments

Statistics

[Tribbin]

73.3 percent of all statistics are made up.

Re:Statistics

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

On top of being made up, a full 23.34432% of them pretend to be more accurate than they really are.

Re:Statistics

[Tribbin]

And 112% of them don't apply to logic.

Re:I'd belive the stats

[Smight]

That recent study was done on college students in Austin, Texas mostly majoring in psychology. I think if you were going to judge how verbose all men are you wouldn't pick future psychologists as a representative sample. http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/news/200707 06/men-dont-talk-less-than-women

Re:Averages aren't necessarily stereotypes

[Weedlekin]

"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."

The fallacy is the statement about spiders being insects. They're chelicerates, which is a distinct arthropod sub-phylum that's much older, and genetically distinct from the hexapods (which includes insects and other six legged arthropods such as diplura). As the name "hexapod" suggests, _all_ normal (i.e. undamaged) adult insects have six legs, although their larvae can have anything ranging from none (e.g. maggots) to many (e.g. some caterpillars).

NB: some zoologists used to use the term "insect" as a general catch-all for any arthropod, but it's now considered as obsolete as the sun being classed as one of the planets.