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Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: men dominate net.women (flame-ish)
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 15:40:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 15:40:26 1985
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>                 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
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