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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Statistics: Geez, I thought there were more females in bitcoin community
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DdmrDdmr
on 16/09/2019, 14:09:34 UTC
<…> What is your experience like when it comes to gender in this community? <…>

Specifically on Bitcointalk, if we go by the "gender" profile field we get:
It took me a bit to find the post where I’d provided this Information before:

<…> Looking over @piggy’s full profile database (generated at the beginning of December 2018), the gender field shows:

-   Male value informed:                      95.831 profiles (3,86% of all profiles)
-   Female value informed:                  20.308 profiles (0,82% of all profiles)
-   Uninformed or invalid content:   2.365.131 profiles (95,32% of all profiles)

Therefore, the ratio, based on the informed gender field, is 4,7 male per female. Now I don’t really believe the above ratio too much. It’s what the data shows, but the gender is highly uninformed on the profiles, and I’ve seen quite a few bot bursts creating accounts and adding a gender randomly.

I guess that, due to the lack of female representation, it seems quite usual to refer to apparently male profiles as “she”, especially when the discussion scales a tone or two …
The male to female ratio is the same as that on the official stats.

I don’t particularly trust the sincerity of the declared values on this field, and there could indeed be quite a large set of people that state a specific gender in accordance to how they believe will be more beneficial to their interests. Isolating the profile values that have been declared we get 82,5% male for 17,5% female. The latter value seems pretty inflated though.