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Poll: What is your gender?

I'm interested to see what kind of demographics we have here on HN. I suspect the majority are male but it would be interesting to see an approximate percentage of females.

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6 months ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1571216

2 years ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591309

and leaving this here if helpful to anyone doing other surveys

http://google.com/search?q=site:ycombinator.com+poll

Interesting to see the progression of these numbers over time.

male:female (other)

@30 minutes it is 200:10 (7) @15 minutes it was 42:2 (0)

http://hackeress.com/hackeress/etc/genders.png

I was thinking the exact same thing. It's a little too late now though to get worthwhile results, I think. Perhaps a year from now I'll ask again with a script ready. :)

Even looking back at the older surveys, looks like the ratio is somewhere around 20:1. This makes the military look positively feminist.

You know, its kind of naive to use a binary to represent gender. Just throwing that out there.

I'll add "other"... :) Sorry about that!

Was probably easier than:

"On a scale of 1 to 10, please describe your sexual identity as it relates to the presence of traits and characteristics formerly associated with the expression of the human Y chromosome."

I realize you say this jokingly, but seeing that at this there are almost as many others as female (14 v 16) I'm curious how they define it. If I had to guess it would be mostly male->female given the overwhelming number of males, but I have no idea.

20 years later and it is still a/s/l? sigh

ASL = Age/Sex/???

Location.

Well, that's a huge surprise. Something to remember when topics of gender do come up: we are most of us male, and that influences the outlook.

By "What is everyone's gender?" I think you mean "What is your gender?" I do not think "everyone" has singular gender.

Good eye... I'll change the age poll's title as well. ;)

At a current 98:6:2 ratio, I'm thinking "everyone" here has a pretty clear gender.

I've often wondered if the tech industry has a statistically higher other ratio than others, or if people are just more open or honest.

my sex is male, my gender is man

masculine

This actually goes with my other poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175588

Given HN polls allow users to pick more than one option, you could have had a "What is your age/gender?" With both Gender and Age options, letting people vote on the two relevant answers.

Oh I did not know that. Thanks! That's good to know in the future. I assumed HN automatically removed your previous vote similar to radio buttons.

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