On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:49 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
We have heard a great deal lately about a "gender gap". Is there really a gender gap? With 93% of editor not marking there gender known per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-02-14/News_an... http://refmight it just be that female editors prefer to keep there gender unknown which seems like an equally valid explanation of the results.
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The conclusion from the study on which the figure of 12-14 or something women has several metodological flaws in my view. Mainly about the representativity of the sample from the survey
See http://www.wikipediasurvey.org/docs/Wikipedia_Overview_15March2010-FINAL.pdf and http://www.wikipediasurvey.org/docs/Wikipedia_Age_Gender_30March%202010-FINA...
If you take those numbers as unbiased estimators of sampled population, you come to the conclusion (from page5, 1st doc) that Wikipedia has the mindboggling amount of.. 200 thousand readers.
But I guess it's useful to think of the conclusions there derived as accurate, for sake of discussion.
Then, I don't want to get into problems (as that figure and the gendergap seem to have become sacred topics these days) so I will just not rock the boat, leaving those links for those with actual statistics knowledge to read.