Klarinet Archive - Posting 001364.txt from 2000/04

From: "redcedar" <redcedar@-----.au>
Subj: RE: [kl] Gender bias survey?
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 10:00:43 -0400

The following is indicative, rather than definitive.
A scan of the selected klarinet posts I've filed from the past
four-and-a-half months reveals:

192 unduplicated email addresses (roughly a quarter of the list membership
from memory)

of these:

148 posters had male names
39 posters had female names
3 posters fell into the "DK" category.

The foregoing is a poor, and potentially biased, survey sampling
methodology, but as I said at the outset, it is indicative - that is,
roughly three-quarters of the sample's posters were male.

I suspect a volume analysis of posts would yield results not significantly
different from the above.

"David/Dave" is the most common name occurring, next followed by
"Jim/James".

Just some mindless trivia, the collection of which helps pass a sultry
non-seasonal Autumn Sunday in Sydney.

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Charette [mailto:charette@-----.org]
Subject: Re: [kl] Gender bias - survey?

From: "Paulette W. Gulakowski" <pollyg@-----.com>

> Someone could keep track for a while of the postings, most are signed.
> That would be some empirical data... Provided, of course, that we would
> recognize which names were male and which female.
> Paulette

Not so good. Only a small percentage of listers post - we'd end up with a
survey of posters, not a survey of players.

Mark C.

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