Hi all
The message count I sent a while ago was done at the spur of the moment,
spanning a period of time which wasn't compatible with the statistics I
have kept earlier. But I thought it might be interesting to fill in the
missing pieces in a set of message counts that I had in store, which runs
over terms (six-month periods) from the start of this list under the xmca
address, in the autumn of 1995. Mid-september, to be precise, so the first
slot is only really four and a half months.
16991 postings by 688 different contributors, all in all.
au95 sp96 au96 sp97 au97 sp98 au98 sp99 au99 sp00
au00 sp01
postings 990 2132 1117 1273 1753 1259 1342 1509 1398 1523
1185 1510
contrib. 181 190 161 205 217 153 132 134 126 108
86 96
p/cont 5,47 11,22 6,94 6,21 8,08 8,23 10,17 11,26 11,10 14,10
13,78 15,73
So the number of active contributors has been shrinking, but the active
contributors post, on an average, more messages.
...and today I was (for some reason) inspired to go back to the spreadsheet
I had prepared and look at the gender distribution. Some charts can be
found at
http://hem.spray.se/eva.ekeblad/weaver/stats.html
What strikes me is that while the share of women contributors stays,
hovering, around 40%, the share of postings BY women seems to be
decreasing. It's been at most 37%, this spring term it was 26%
I'll give you the average numbers of messages per contributor, as well:
au95 sp96 au96 sp97 au97 sp98 au98 sp99 au99 sp00
au00 sp01
mm/mc 5,63 12,94 7,08 7,00 8,45 9,05 11,96 13,90 14,16 15,48
16,80 19,53
fm/fc 5,23 9,14 6,65 5,05 7,49 7,15 7,95 7,70 7,27 11,85
9,58 10,18
There also seems to be more turnover (less stability) among the women
contributors, the sum-total of 734 "contributor-terms" being performed by
304 different women, and a sum-total of 1055 "contributor-terms" being
performed by 384 different men.
So, is this another case of the concrete cage?
Eva
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