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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."
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".
Then hopefully it will STOP THEIR YAPPING all the time! Damn broads....
Hang on, my wife is having me go wash the dishes....
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I think an interesting follow-up question is, "does more talking in real life equate to more blogging?". Sure there's correlation -- I think most of us will agree that women talk more than men -- but I wonder if the drive is similar between the two. . . In other words, does the mechanism that makes women blabber on also compel them to blog more? If so, what is that mechanism?
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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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" 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.
73.3 percent of all statistics are made up.
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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
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Men are less likely to become pregnant than women.
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Come on! Did somebody really have to do a survey to figure this one out?
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Well, those stats are well done, but I guess I'm not the usual woman. I don't look for recipies and I don't look for animals. I suppose travel would be the remotely closest thing I could see myself looking for.
/., Homestar Runner, Penny Arcade Comic feeds, Kawaii Not feeds, some poltical journals (mostly socialist/liberal) and stuff from my friends and ThinkGeek on their new products up on the store.
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You are right, BWJones, stereotypes are depressing. And no, sorry guys, I don't have a picture of myself posted in a bikini on my blog.
Ok, I made that up.
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.