Weblog survey results

[rosiespark]

Gacked from dargie, who is encouraging female bloggers to go and even the balance: it seems that the survey results so far show that male bloggers outnumber female ones by 3327 to 2147.

Which I'm finding a bit strange seeing that everyone on my friendlist is female. As far as I know, anyway.

Anyway, there's a flaw in their sampling design. All that statisic really shows is that male bloggers are approx. one and a half times more likely to take online surveys about their blogging habits. It could just be that us girls mostly have better things to do with our time online. Heh.

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[semyaza.livejournal.com]

Or it may be that guys are more prepared to give out the URL to their weblog so that this survey can know stuff that I don't want it to know and match that info up with my addy and my birth year. Nope. Besides, I have four LJs, a GJ, and a blog, so....

I have two guys on my flist. Perhaps men like blogs and women prefer LJ?

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

And Commodorified made some very good points.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. So she does. And it looks like she might actually have got the survey revised!

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

AFAIK, no.

He's already writing, and he has responses, so this is set in stone.

But he's more aware of the limits now.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

But he's more aware of the limits now.

Yes, and that's a very good thing. Well done!

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

That gave me a moment's pause, but I decided that I'm far enough removed geographically that I really don't care what information they have about me. ::pauses:: Should I be worried?

And what's the difference between blogs and lj? I thought lj was a form of blog. Is it not, then?

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm not worried about that, fwiw.

I checked the ethics committe fine print and it's clean. This is a confidential study, and it's properly supervised.

I'm not saying anyone who isn't comfortable ought to do it, but this is safer than most things online.

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

I don't think you need to be worried; I'm just paranoid. I don't like anything that connects to my LJ. And after reading what Commodorified had to say, I think I would have been frustrated by the nature of the questions (as I usually am on any questionnaire I've ever filled out).

Yes, LJ is a blog, but it has all the friending stuff etc which other blogs don't have, so there's a sense of community with an LJ that you don't have with a blog. I've only just acquired a blog and I have no idea what I'm going to do with it. But I've been spending a lot of time on blogs lately and some of them give a whole new meaning to wanky and ill-mannered.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

I have to say that I can't see the point of a blog without the friending stuff that comes with lj. Not to mention the communities based on shared interests. I mean, I knew all of 4 people with journals when I got mine, and they were all from Dunnett reading lists online. In almost two years, I feel like I've got to know a lot of people!

I wonder if blog vs lj is a gender thing - women want to be chatty and interact with other people, while men just want to have their say, regardless of who is (or isn't)listening. *g*

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

Bro#2 just got a blog, on the principle that "everyone else is mouthing off; I thought I might as well". So you may be right. :D