eva,
first off, might i say it's a special treat to read your estrogen-laced
words here in testosterone-ville. :)
and while i love your stats analysis, what would you surmise from the
results, ?
diane
xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>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
>
>
>
"I want you to put the crayon back in my brain."
Homer Simpson
diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
vancouver, bc
mailing address: 46 broadview avenue, montreal, qc, H9R 3Z2
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