For context, these are the results of a survey that I gave to the users of c/Trans.
What are your thoughts?
Cis men outnumber cis women 30 to 1 💀
Yeah “there are no girls on the internet” kinda thing. Joking aside though, keep in mind that n=370 and sampling from c/Trans probably doesn’t give significant results for the fediverse as a whole. Though it is an interesting result.
Cis women’s got things to do, friends to meet, career to focus on… They’re busy and they don’t have time for browsing internet message boards.
That’s a pretty big generalization right there. While it’s true that statistically cis women usually take on things more often like caring for sick relatives, housework, and child raising, there are still plenty of cis women who need to touch grass. Just look at the chronically online TERF groups on places like Twitter and Facebook. Many of them are cis women.
There’s probably a LOT of selection bias in there.
What? Is willingness to answer polls inherited via the Y chromosome?
Willing to share your gender/sex with the internet is probably socially tied to being male.
It’s me. Your token cis woman.
But as someone up thread said, I genuinely believe it’s because cis women don’t self-identify as much on the internet. I’m liable to have some angry incel I dare to contradict realize I’m a woman and harass me all across the fediverse as a result. It’s happened so many times in my life.
meh, the old saying “there are no women on the internet” is still true, just needs to be phrased more specifically to restore it’s original meaning which was “there are no cis women on the internet”.
Unfortunate, that lemmy is so biased.
I’m a cis man and I drive-by voted. I don’t read anything in the community and am disinterested. I just saw the poll and decided to respond for fun. Don’t read too much into the results.
First thought is that trans women who are attracted to men can rest easy knowing cis men are at the very least interested in trans content.
Second thought is that those numbers for everyone on the masculine side of things are lower than expected. Like way lower.
The unsure/questioning category might be hiding some with either a bluish or pinkish hue. Though I fully understand there’s a limit to splitting this one into “questioning fem”, “questioning masc”, “questioning nbin”, “questioning fluid”, etc. This is where you bring in the multi-question form where you first establish if someone is sure, then ask them about their identity (or the one they’re questioning).
Statistically speaking, this is where you start asking yourself if your data is reliable enough to draw any kind of conclusions from. Which it probably isn’t. The only reliable conclusions (that you would likely also see if you did a n=10k study) I could probably draw from these results are these:
- The survey has reached a lot of cis men, which probably means cis men are more interested in trans content in general than one might think.
- Anything feminine outnumbers anything masculine, at least for this platform.
Bonus thought: I love that strawpoll actually takes data visualization seriously and presents both a properly formatted pie chart and a bar graph. For anyone wondering: A properly formatted pie chart starts at 12 o’clock, is sorted highest to lowest and does not use any fancy 3D effects. Any other visualization relies on labeled percentages to inform the viewer. And if those are absent, you just have to judge which slice is bigger. Visualizing the data the way Strawpoll does here makes absolutely sure no one can misinterpret the results.
