Survey Shows More Women Blogging Than Men

thefickler writes "The blogosphere has hit the mainstream, according to a new survey, which reveals that 80% of Americans know what a blog is, 50% regularly visit blogs, and 8% publish their own blog. The survey also reveals that more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14% of men."

This not surprising...

they always talked more.

figures

Chicks are all "yap yap yap" and dudes are like "why don't you go write in your blog, I'm trying to play Xbox".

That's Really Funny

So one in ten people who knows what a blog is, HAS a blog.

That's too many blogs.

I don't believe the stats, at all

I call total bullshit on these statistics.
8% write their own blogs? Twenty million people?!? Impossible. No way, no how. Now maybe, just maybe 8% of some select subclass of internet users (e.g. 8% of people who spend more than 4 hours/day on the internet, have a college education, a median income greater than $####, own at least one foreign-made car, read WIred magazine, etc.) write blogs, but to think that many ordinary Americans are writing their own blogs... nope. I don't buy it.

And if you doubt this for one moment, just try to remember the last time you stood in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles. See how silly it seems thinking 4/5 of them could explain what a blog is? And to think nearly 1/10 writes their own? Nyet.

Re:I don't believe the stats, at all

... a median income greater than $####, ...

Could you repost that, but this time expand the column so we can see the entire number?
 

Re:I don't believe the stats, at all

Depends on what you count as a blog. I could easily believe nearly 1/10 people have used the "blog" feature on MySpace.

I'd belive the stats

These stats seem to hold up with what i am seeing on the stats for Jonesblog [utah.edu] in that the majority of readers seem to be women looking for recipes [utah.edu] , pictures of animals [utah.edu] and interestingly, travel [utah.edu] while the majority of searches from males tend to be stuff like guns [utah.edu] , airplanes [utah.edu], cars [utah.edu] and an inordinate amount of traffic searching for hot women that somehow hit this page [utah.edu]. Stereotypes are sad, but true I suppose in some areas. The interesting thing that really surprised me was that I had to include a notice in my FAQ [utah.edu] on my "status" as I've had more than one unsolicited request for a date from visitors to the blog.

Re:I'd belive the stats

I think an interesting follow-up question is, "does more talking in real life equate to more blogging?". Sure there's correlation -- I think most of us will agree that women talk more than men -- but I wonder if the drive is similar between the two. . . In other words, does the mechanism that makes women blabber on also compel them to blog more? If so, what is that mechanism?

Re:I'd belive the stats

That recent study was done on college students in Austin, Texas mostly majoring in psychology. I think if you were going to judge how verbose all men are you wouldn't pick future psychologists as a representative sample. http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/news/200707 06/men-dont-talk-less-than-women [webmd.com]

Survey also shows...

that any article summary mentioning the word "blogosphere" resultants in your average slashdot reader to be 79.993093 more likely not to RTFA because the term "blogosphere" was mentioned. Seriously. Kill it with fire. I hate the word.

Re:Survey also shows...

that any article summary mentioning the word "blogosphere" resultants in your average slashdot reader to be 79.993093 more likely not to RTFA because the term "blogosphere" was mentioned. Seriously. Kill it with fire. I hate the word.

Yes, let the word "blogoshphere" become a roadkill on the information superhighway, for the synergetic well-being of all netizens!

Regards,
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*Art

Good...

Then hopefully it will STOP THEIR YAPPING all the time! Damn broads....

Hang on, my wife is having me go wash the dishes....

survey

100% of people who took this survey are likely to answer surveys, but how many people who don't answer surveys are likely to have blogs hmm?

mindless gab

OMG women like mindless gab and talking about their thoughts and feelings more than men?! That has thrown my entire perception of reality into chaos.

Does myspace count as blogging?

Just curious.

Re:Does myspace count as blogging?

Of course the fact that women equal or outnumber men doing ANYTHING online in 2007 is pretty much a nonissue anyway.

Well I just read about a different survey that concluded that over 50% of people on slashdot are women. I don't know about you, but I found that number rather surprising.

Ok, I made that up.

What?

The survey also revealed that more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14% of men.

That does not prove what they're trying to indicate at all. That indicates "women who read blogs are more likely to have one of their own". It doesn't say squat about how many women actually have blogs - if there's five women out there who read blogs, and 100 men, then that's one female-run blog and 14 male-run blogs.

Come on, guys. Get your facts straight.

Now for some more stats please.

What percentage of blogs are actually READ with a break-down of male/female? I think blogs by women who post a hot picture of themselves would possibly be a bit overrepresented. I know a few nerds who read a chick's blog just because she also happens to be a swimsuit model. Personally, I would prefer to read a blog that was actually interesting.

Summary says most women are men?

What an insensitive summary, but I guess that's to be expected from the patriarchal and male-dominated Slashdot blog. So for the last time you unenlightend masoginists, Bloggers are male, and Bloghers [blogher.org] are female. Sheesh.

Wrong conclusion

The body of the article states:

"The survey also revealed that more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14 % of men."

This does not equate to more blogger being women. If there are twice the number of males reading blogs than females, then given the above ratio, 40% more men would be blogging than women. Unfortunately this article doesn't tell us the number of males reading blogs versus females, so we can't draw any conclusion either way. And I'd guess that there's more men reading blogs based on my use of Slashdot and Digg, but I really have no broad data to back me up.

The only thing this survey shows is that of blog readers who fill out surveys, females tend to blog more than males. And even then, the margin of error on a population size of 10,000,000 bloggers with their 1,000 user sample size is 3.1%. So the statistic is nearly meaningless ...

Bogus statistic that ignores internet reality

" Survey Shows More Women Blogging Than Men"

On the intenet, men are men, women are men, and little kids are fbi agents.

... or dogs.

So what is the percentage of blogs about cats?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Must... kill...

... people who say "blogosphere".

Damn hippies.

Livejournal?

Where does one draw a line between blog and "online diary"? I didn't notice a definition when I skimmed TFA. I would think that things like LJ skew the results quite a bit, since lots of teens are liable to hit up these sites and the post to them every once in a blue moon.

Behind the counter

Very nice reading; a girl who in an entertaining way writes about her frustrations at Walmart.

http://www.behindthecounter.com/ [behindthecounter.com]

Just stumbled across it and like to share it.

Statistics

73.3 percent of all statistics are made up.

Surprising!

Surprising how many men have blogs, considering that the ratio of men/women keeping diaries is, say 1/9.

This sure took me by surprise.

More women are attention whores online than men! Who'd a thunk it?

"The Internet"...where men are men, and women...

"The Internet":
Where men are men,
Women are men,
And all the children are undercover FBI agents.

librarians

a lot of librarians blog and there are tons of female librarians.

Reading a blog doesn't make you a blogger

"The survey also reveals that more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14% of men.""

Sorry, visiting blogs doesn't make you a blogger. I'm a blogger. I write blogs that are read by over ten thousand people a day - EACH. I make my living writing blogs. And if you don't, you're not a blogger - you're just a wannabe.

Another survey confirms

Men are less likely to become pregnant than women.

You heard it here first!

Come on! Did somebody really have to do a survey to figure this one out?

Look at the bright side...

... blogs are the new attentive boyfriend who she can cheat with while she's with you. When YOU won't talk to them about their feelings because you really don't care about how horrible it was that her co-worker bought a pair of shoes just like hers after she had already shown hers off at work, she can go yap to a bunch of other estrogen driven goofballs who take that type of shit very seriously. Most of them will invariably be effeminate gay men who will pour their own pathetically wounded hearts into comments about fashion issues, and/or horny virgins who will feign sympathy in an attempt to garner long distance wank fests.

So after she blows off her steam and has her fill of stuff you don't care about, she'll need someone who smells of sweat and cheetoes and football and cars and even Xboxes, just to wash all the stink off after spending an hour or two gushing to that perfume laden fantasy world.

Of course, all you geeks will never have to worry about this. Level 65 Death Knights don't really let women near their PCs, after all. Or is it that women don't want to be near the PCs of level 65 Death Knights?

I forget.

minor details

No, I didn't go read the article
"20% of women WHO HAVE VISITED BLOGS have their own blog versus 14% of men."

Even if I assume that it is "14% of men who have visited blogs," that statement is meaningless unless we know whether more men have visited blogs or not. If 14% of 2 Million men have blogs that's 280,000 men with blogs which would be more than 20% of 1 Million women who have visited blogs.

I made up the numbers, but the point is that we have to have the full story. The numbers we were given does not prove that more women blog than men.

Does it say...

...what percentage of either gender feels the overwhelming urge to vomit every time they hear the word "blogosphere"?

More women?

More women the same way there seem to be more "women" on irc trying to chat with you?

So Easy

Blogging is so easy, even women can do it!


(Or are we done with that joke now?)

Dear thefickler

The survey also reveals that more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14% of men."

      Wrong. This just means that more American women who visit blogs have their own blogs. Please do not read more into the data than what is actually there.

Sexism on Slashdot

If the low intellectual tone of some of the comments in this thread are anything to go by, I would say that there are virtually no women using Slashdot, and to be honest, I can see why...

Missed Opportunity

Why wasn't this "from the chatty-cathy dept."?

80% know what a blog is?

I highly doubt it. Let me guess -- they conducted this survey ON THE INTERNET. So their sample is limited to exactly the same group of people who would probably know what a blog is. Somebody needs to re-take basic statistics...

I could be wrong -- I can't RTFA because it's Slashdotted.

New advertising slogan...

Blogging... now with more chicks!!!

Doesn't really surprise me

OK, so the conclusions in the article may be a bit off, although I'm not really surprised if women are more common bloggers. If I go beyond the geeky tech blogs, based on what I'm seeing here on e.g. Swedish blog community sites, there's an ocean of blogs out there and a whole lot seem to be ran by women. It's not exactly the gender ratio you see on sites like this one. :-p

Lies

Everyone knows that "THERE IS NO GURLS ON TEH INTERWEBZ!!1!1"

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Statistics aren't the point

Everyone seems to be caught up on the statistics (there are plenty of statistical errors the article makes, for sure). I don't know about a lot of you but I know far more girls that blog than guys that do. Let's face it, girls tend to be chatty and want to share details about what's going on with them. It probably sounds pretty gay but I actually enjoy reading their blogs more than guys'.

Womens' yappin'

I wouldn't mind listening to them yap if they had something interesting to say... *ducks*

My problem is : I got nothing to write about!

I mean.. I got a slashdot blog, and I will not write how I feel today or that stuff because honestly it's too gay.
I write only neat stuff that comes up my mind when I'm in my own journal. If you want, you can check my journal out and let me know what to write about and if my journal is nice or not (if you like linux stuff you will like the basics of it, but there are not much articles).

I'm feeling good today... thanks!

Not that surprising

I have a personal blog, and have had for many years. Most of the personal blogs I see are by women and all my "blog friends" are women (usually girls in their teens & 20's). A lot of it revolves around making layouts, talking about your life, girl-oriented topics, making new friends/penpals, etc. I just can't picture a lot of guys being into the same thing... *shock*!

Conspicuous...

Hmmm, haven't seen a comment yet that started with "I'm a woman, and I think..."

You need Internet Access to take the survey

The survey isn't of all Americans, it's all Americans with Internet access. So the gross numbers are skewed, analysis here: http://www.encoreopus.com/statistics/blogger-stati stics-lying-with-numbers.html [encoreopus.com]

Re:You're Embarassing Us in Front of the Other Sex

You misread that, is says that 20% of women who have visited blogs have one of their own.

Re:I am SO blogging this!

Go blog yourself you pervert!

Re:Words that must die:

Also the word blogophobia?

Re:In other news:

And that makes you ...

Re:STBU!

I'm confused, what do you think the issue is? The first question is what do they get out of blogs, the second question is their main reason for reading blogs. The two don't have to result in the same numbers, in fact since one person can have multiple answers to the first question but should theoretically have only one to the second means that the results should be very different.

Re:So what?

I was under the impression that a blog is where one dipshit babbles endlessly, and sometimes others respond to it. On the other hand, slashdot is a forum -- anybody can submit a post to begin a discussion (despite the fact that there are restrictions and reviews, however incompetently performed), and the discussion following the original post (the article) is the point of the site. There isn't much ambiguity about what a forum is, and they predate blogs by several decades.

Certainly the numbnuts who live and breathe blogs seem to have decided that any form of online discussion is a blog, but that just further confirms that on the whole, they tend towards cluelessness.

Yes, there are usages and situations that blur the lines, but that's like arguing that there isn't any point in differentiating between a truck and a car because they have so much in common.

(As an aside, we need a new moderation option: +1 Car Analogy)