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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
As Patricia already said, because the gender field is optional, most people tend stay "gender-neutral" here. Of 18266 registered members, 1858 claim to be male (~10%) and 363 to be female (~2%). The majority (16045 users) hasn't made up its mind yet. 
If we take the number of males and females as a statistically relevant sample (which probably most people would disagree with given the relatively small total number), we could conclude that at Mobileread, ~84% are males and ~16% females. |
clearly, ebook forums are the place to go to meet guys. also people (/ hedgehogs / squirrels...) of uncertain gender. possibly the overwhelming majority here are hermaphrodites or trans-gendered people, so the binary choice "male / female" does not apply.
i suspect that for whatever reason, women are perhaps more reticent about indicating their gender (i can think of a few reasons for that, and i'm sure there are others which haven't occurred to me). i can't actually remember whether i indicated mine when i registered... if it was an optional question, i probably skipped it, as i do with most optional questions when registering anywhere. EDIT : nope, i just checked in my profile, and it does say i am female, so i must have replied after all.
i doubt the sample can be accurately extrapolated to be representative of the entire population, however i would not be surprised if there were in fact a majority of men, but with the difference being significantly less dramatic than in the sample.