Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!crs From: crs@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: men dominate net.women (flame-ish) Message-ID: <29868@lanl.ARPA> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 15:40:26 EDT Article-I.D.: lanl.29868 Posted: Mon Aug 19 15:40:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 15:18:36 EDT References: <175@drutx.UUCP> <11110@rochester.UUCP> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 44 > From Karla Rikansrud: > > After ignoring most this newsgroup for a while, because of the > plethora of male-submitted, uninteresting articles, I decided to go > through some articles and tally up the submitters. This resulted > in some interesting statistics: > > Of the first 141 articles: 41 were from women > 100 were from men > > Thinking this was rather phenomenal, I did the same thing to > the next 142 articles, this time: 34 were from women > 108 were from men > > Don't you men think this is a little peculiar? > I suspect that if you were to normalize your data with respect to the number of the respective sex on the net as a whole the results would show that men are showing remarkable self restraint. Ie: 41 articles from women ---------------------- W total # of women 100 articles from men ---------------------- M total # of men Where "articles" is, of course, the number submitted to net.women by the respecive sex. Does anyone have any information about the total numbers of women & men who participate on the net? I think the ratios of net.women posters to totals would be most interesting. The foregoing is not in any way to be construed as suggesting that the noise level in net.women (as in most other groups) is not abysmal. -- All opinions are mine alone... Charlie Sorsby ...!{cmcl2,ihnp4,...}!lanl!crs crs@lanl.arpa