What's your e-Reader and gender?

[Patricia]

And every man.

[spooky69]

Touche.

[jerryleejr]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

You know, I was about to write the very same statement. I know the Sony's been out a year and half and there a lot of old-time Sony owners here but the Kindle's been out 7 months. Surely there can't be a 2 or 3 to 1 ratio of Sony to Kindle owners here, can there?

I dont know about the ratio of owners, But if you look at the Thread count in the Forums The Sony has as many thread as all the others combined minus the iRex Iliad. It could be that the Sony has the biggest following or other owners are have found Device specific forums.

JJ

[jerryleejr]

Originally Posted by Elsi

Of the members who have posted at least XXX messages, what's the ratio?

I would hope there would be none of those Types of Messages on here!!


JJ

[jerryleejr]

Originally Posted by spooky69

If lying's involved, the culprit is definitely every woman ever.

If you cant type nice do not type at all.

JJ

[Alexander Turcic]

Originally Posted by Elsi

An interesting question to the moderators -- what's the ratio of male to females who have registered at MobileRead?

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.

[zelda_pinwheel]

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.

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by igorsk

Kindlers seem to be sticking mostly to Amazon forums and lists like kindlekorner.
When Sony was released, here was (and still is) about the only place the users can discuss it.

The Amazon and KindleKorner fora drive me nuts with their format. There are some lively discussions there, but this way of doing things makes it a lot easier to get a gestalt of what people are finding interesting in e-books.

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by jerryleejr

I would hope there would be none of those Types of Messages on here!!


JJ

Hang around the Lounge long enough...

[GeoffC]

My "reader's" female.

Putting the cat in amongst the pigeons before this thread gets too sensible...