On 14 August 2015 at 11:33, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 August 2015 at 09:58, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com
wrote:
Looking at "male-female" and "female-male", and considering the
much-cited
15% female editor ratio, it seems women are much more overwrite-happy
than
men.
I'm just thinking this through again, as there is a logical flaw in statement. If we take a random sample space limited to just overwrites where men are overwriting women or women are overwriting men, then the ratio of men:women is irrelevant, given a large sample. Effectively even if men outnumber women by 80% or 90%, the numbers of overwrites of type "male-female" and "female-male" should be almost the same in /both directions/. If the figures are not similar, then other factors are at play than just that there are more men contributing to the project.
Testing this theory, I went to the English Wikipedia database and checking over all time, found:
+-------------+----------+ | sex | count(*) | +-------------+----------+ | female-male | 63 | | male-female | 127 | +-------------+----------+
Checking the all time figures for Commons shows:
+-------------+----------+ | sex | count(*) | +-------------+----------+ | female-male | 1309 | | male-female | 2220 | +-------------+----------+
Quickly going to French (far less statistically significant):
+-------------+----------+ | sex | count(*) | +-------------+----------+ | female-male | 1 | | male-female | 12 | +-------------+----------+
German:
+-------------+----------+ | sex | count(*) | +-------------+----------+ | female-male | 6 | | male-female | 39 | +-------------+----------+
The conclusion has to be that women are at least /twice/ as likely to have an image overwritten by a man on our projects than the reverse happing. The numbers are sufficiently large for it to appear a meaningful result.
Fae