You know, its kind of naive to use a binary to represent gender. Just throwing that out there.

Was probably easier than:

"On a scale of 1 to 10, please describe your sexual identity as it relates to the presence of traits and characteristics formerly associated with the expression of the human Y chromosome."

I realize you say this jokingly, but seeing that at this there are almost as many others as female (14 v 16) I'm curious how they define it. If I had to guess it would be mostly male->female given the overwhelming number of males, but I have no idea.

I'll add "other"... :) Sorry about that!

20 years later and it is still a/s/l? sigh

ASL = Age/Sex/???

Location.

Interesting to see the progression of these numbers over time.

male:female (other)

@30 minutes it is 200:10 (7) @15 minutes it was 42:2 (0)

http://hackeress.com/hackeress/etc/genders.png

Even looking back at the older surveys, looks like the ratio is somewhere around 20:1. This makes the military look positively feminist.

I was thinking the exact same thing. It's a little too late now though to get worthwhile results, I think. Perhaps a year from now I'll ask again with a script ready. :)

Well, that's a huge surprise. Something to remember when topics of gender do come up: we are most of us male, and that influences the outlook.

By "What is everyone's gender?" I think you mean "What is your gender?" I do not think "everyone" has singular gender.

At a current 98:6:2 ratio, I'm thinking "everyone" here has a pretty clear gender.

I've often wondered if the tech industry has a statistically higher other ratio than others, or if people are just more open or honest.

Good eye... I'll change the age poll's title as well. ;)

6 months ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1571216

2 years ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591309

and leaving this here if helpful to anyone doing other surveys

http://google.com/search?q=site:ycombinator.com+poll

my sex is male, my gender is man

masculine

This actually goes with my other poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175588

Given HN polls allow users to pick more than one option, you could have had a "What is your age/gender?" With both Gender and Age options, letting people vote on the two relevant answers.

Oh I did not know that. Thanks! That's good to know in the future. I assumed HN automatically removed your previous vote similar to radio buttons.