On 14 August 2015 at 11:33, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 14 August 2015 at 09:58, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske(a)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