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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."
they always talked more.
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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.
Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
Then hopefully it will STOP THEIR YAPPING all the time! Damn broads....
Hang on, my wife is having me go wash the dishes....
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
Just curious.
Come on, guys. Get your facts straight.
Breaking Into the Industry - A development log about starting a game studio.
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
my blog
" Survey Shows More Women Blogging Than Men"
On the intenet, men are men, women are men, and little kids are fbi agents.
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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Just stumbled across it and like to share it.
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73.3 percent of all statistics are made up.
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Surprising how many men have blogs, considering that the ratio of men/women keeping diaries is, say 1/9.
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"The Internet":
Where men are men,
Women are men,
And all the children are undercover FBI agents.
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?
Yes, let the word "blogoshphere" become a roadkill on the information superhighway, for the synergetic well-being of all netizens!
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I don't understand what makes the blogosphere a sphere..... why not the blogosquare?
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...
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.
"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.
I'm not going to change your sheets again, Mr. Hastings.