May. 8th, 2009

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(I tried to post this yesterday, but managed to post only in my ownjournal -- yay brainfog!! And if this isn't the right place to post about it, let me know. The brian fog lives on)

I've just realised the gender stats ignore "Unspecified" in the breakdown.

It says:

Gender
The gender breakdown of our account holders:

* Female 14258 (85.1%)
* Male 2149 (12.8%)
* Other 349 (2.1%)
* Unspecified 10042

But running the numbers I get this:

* Female 14258 (53.2%)
* Male 2149 (8.0%)
* Other 349 (1.3%)
* Unspecified 10042 (37.5%)

Leaving out unspecified seems like it skews it a lot -- only the people who state they identify as male or female or don't mind being "other"ed are counted -- but the people who don't fit in those categories are 37.5% of the userbase.

I also note that the choice on the profile is "Rather not say", not "Unspecified", and those mean very different things to me.

~Carys

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