Are you male or female?

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14 May 2012, 9:45 am

I was just wondering approx. what the ratio of males to females is on this site.
I know that there are some people that would like an other option but I would like people to vote and other would get used as a lets just see the results option

I didn't see a recent version of this poll

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14 May 2012, 10:10 am

The only problem with the survey is that it's self-selecting. Males are more considerably more likely to complete web surveys than females. So your results are going to be skewed from the start.

You'd get slightly better results if you just asked Alex if there was a site stats page that you could get access to. Gender is a public field in the profiles.

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14 May 2012, 10:15 am

Xyzzy wrote:

The only problem with the survey is that it's self-selecting. Males are more considerably more likely to complete web surveys than females. So your results are going to be skewed from the start.

You'd get slightly better results if you just asked Alex if there was a site stats page that you could get access to. Gender is a public field in the profiles.

Really?

It would have been surprising if there were not more guys overall anyway. Dunno about what you said. Males are diagnosed more. Males possible have a higher rate of autism than females.

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14 May 2012, 10:50 am

I don't know if there are actually more male aspies then female, it's just that female aspies don't get diagnosed as often because they have different ways of coping with the disorder.

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14 May 2012, 1:51 pm

Delphiki wrote:

Xyzzy wrote:

Really?

It would have been surprising if there were not more guys overall anyway. Dunno about what you said. Males are diagnosed more. Males possible have a higher rate of autism than females.

Well, there is that as well, but the survey gender-bias thing is pretty well researched and documented. Xerox PARC had a number of studies out there over the years (Kehow and Pitkow? Smith and Lee? I'm really bad with remembering names). It biases slightly differently in certain demographics. But overall, the trend is pretty consistent. Men respond to voluntary surveys more often than women (barring any specific incentives) and that rate is even higher for Web vs other media. I used to do a lot of online community analysis and incentive-type work and we had to factor that in anytime that we did surveys

On the flip side, Women are less likely to hang up on you during a phone survey. Though I suspect that a lot of us simply wouldn't answer the phone in the first place

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14 May 2012, 2:12 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:

I don't know if there are actually more male aspies then female, it's just that female aspies don't get diagnosed as often because they have different ways of coping with the disorder.

I wonder how much of it is coping and how much was society ignoring the traits in women. A quiet, shy woman who won't make eye-contact is almost an ideal in some societies and cultures. After all, they're just frail, simple creatures that need to be taken care of by parents or a husband (said for illustration, not out of a personal belief). If they fade into the background because they can't function socially, it's far more accepted than if a male does the same thing. Often it doesn't even raise eyebrows.

Just a thought.

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19 May 2012, 11:26 am

Xyzzy wrote:

Delphiki wrote:

Xyzzy wrote:

Really?

It would have been surprising if there were not more guys overall anyway. Dunno about what you said. Males are diagnosed more. Males possible have a higher rate of autism than females.

On the flip side, Women are less likely to hang up on you during a phone survey. Though I suspect that a lot of us simply wouldn't answer the phone in the first place

Is that the trend for the Autistic/Asperger's demographic as well?

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19 May 2012, 12:38 pm

Senath wrote:

..Is that the trend for the Autistic/Asperger's demographic as well?

That's a good question. I haven't seen much, if any, research on social media, online behavior, etc. and autism. It would be a fascinating area, though.

I would speculate that in social interaction, we'd probably do better in a sort of "social turing test" than non-spectrum people. Neurotypicals are surprisingly reliant on those face-to-cafe social cues that get lost online and it might create a more even playing field (or one where ASD people have an advantage).

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19 May 2012, 4:27 pm

Male.

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31 May 2012, 10:41 pm

I'm a big, strong masculine woman who looks like Mick Avory.

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18 Jun 2012, 11:45 pm

Female. ;D

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28 Jul 2012, 6:38 pm

I am male, and going by the poll, it's almost evenly split between males and females.

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07 May 2013, 2:57 am

Female

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I'm giving it another shot. We will see.
My forum is still there and everyone is welcome to come join as well. There is a private women only subforum there if anyone is interested. Also, there is no CAPTCHA. ;-)