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

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[Anonymous Coward]

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".

Good...

[sgant]

Then hopefully it will STOP THEIR YAPPING all the time! Damn broads....

Hang on, my wife is having me go wash the dishes....

Re:I'd belive the stats

[Skadet]

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?

What?

[ZorbaTHut]

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.

That does not prove what they're trying to indicate at all. That indicates "women who read blogs are more likely to have one of their own". It doesn't say squat about how many women actually have blogs - if there's five women out there who read blogs, and 100 men, then that's one female-run blog and 14 male-run blogs.

Come on, guys. Get your facts straight.

Now for some more stats please.

[Uno Due Tre]

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.

Summary says most women are men?

[Nymz]

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.

Wrong conclusion

[panaceaa]

The body of the article states:

"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 ...

Statistics

[Tribbin]

73.3 percent of all statistics are made up.

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:Survey also shows...

[arth1]

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.

Yes, let the word "blogoshphere" become a roadkill on the information superhighway, for the synergetic well-being of all netizens!

Regards,
--
*Art

Re:I don't believe the stats, at all

[nacturation]

... a median income greater than $####, ... Could you repost that, but this time expand the column so we can see the entire number?

Re:Does myspace count as blogging?

[catbutt]

Of course the fact that women equal or outnumber men doing ANYTHING online in 2007 is pretty much a nonissue anyway. Well I just read about a different survey that concluded that over 50% of people on slashdot are women. I don't know about you, but I found that number rather surprising.

Ok, I made that up.

Re:I don't believe the stats, at all

[The One and Only]

Depends on what you count as a blog. I could easily believe nearly 1/10 people have used the "blog" feature on MySpace.