Hi WereSpielChequers, Kerry, Aaron and all, ____WereSpielChequers wrote: "the community is more abrasive towards women"
this may be stats expert discourse, but let me show you how the question itself has a gendered slant. imagine what would happen - also in your research design - if it read: "the community is less abrasive towards men" - how does this compare to the first question re who are "the community"? and again, re phasing ten years in 2011 and four years on, which language version(s) are hypotheses based on? ____Kerry wrote: "But I would agree that if an organisation sets a target (25% women in this particular case) and then does not put in place a means of measuring the progress against that target, one has to question the point of establishing a target." I think one has to question the point of not putting in place a means of measuring the progress... and also ask why, if the issue is a high priority (allegedly, one might add, in speeches at meetings, in interviews with the press...) this organisation does not fund any top level research... - or does it? ____Aaron wrote: "higher quality survey data" well, and how does one recognize low quality and how come it is so low? and "quality" by whose epistemological aims and standards? "causes and mechanisms that drive the gender gap (and related participation gaps)" which "related participation gaps" do you have in mind here? where would these gaps be situated in terms of areas of participation? and, again, in which language version(s)? best, Claudia ---------- Original Message ----------- From:aaron shaw <aarons...@northwestern.edu> To:Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research- l...@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent:Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:50:17 -0800 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] a cautious note on gender stats Re: Fwd: [Gendergap] Wikipedia readers > Hi all! > > Thanks, Jeremy & Dariusz for following up. > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Dariusz > Jemielniak <dar...@alk.edu.pl> wrote: > > > As far as I recall, they did a follow-up on this topic, and maybe a > > publication coming up? > > Sadly, no follow ups at the moment. > > If we want to have a more precise sense of the > demographics of participants the biggest need in > this space is simply higher quality survey data. > My paper with Mako has a lot of detail about why > the 2008 editor survey (and all subsequent editor > surveys, to my knowledge) has some profound limitations. > > The identification and estimation of the effects > of particular causes and mechanisms that drive the > gender gap (and related participation gaps) > presents an even tougher challenge for > researchers and is an area of active inquiry. > > all the best, > Aaron ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
