X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fsurvey-data-on-cis-and-trans-women-among-haskell-programmers.md;fp=content%2Fdrafts%2Fsurvey-data-on-cis-and-trans-women-among-haskell-programmers.md;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hp=6506081ce5736e10ade82c4014ec8754f1010448;hb=74f590a1e836b2c28238526c8b75c7270298e39a;hpb=865c5f3ae97dfaae4dec207b52adcd394b1a1cd0 diff --git a/content/drafts/survey-data-on-cis-and-trans-women-among-haskell-programmers.md b/content/drafts/survey-data-on-cis-and-trans-women-among-haskell-programmers.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6506081..0000000 --- a/content/drafts/survey-data-on-cis-and-trans-women-among-haskell-programmers.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,67 +0,0 @@ -Title: Survey Data on Cis and Trans Women Among Haskell Programmers -Date: 2021-01-01 -Category: other -Tags: Haskell, sex differences, Python -Status: draft - -Stereotypically, computer programming is both a predominantly male profession and the quintessential profession of non-exclusively-androphilic trans women. Stereotypically, these demographic trends are even more pronounced in "niche", academic, or hobbyist technology communities (_e.g._, Rust), rather than those with more established mainstream use (_e.g._, JavaScript). - -But stereotypes can be _wrong_! The heuristic process by which people's brains form stereotypes from experience are riddled with biases that prevent our mental model of what people are like from matching what people are _actually_ like. Unless you believe [a woman is more likely to be a feminist bank teller than a bank teller (which is _mathematically impossible_)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy), you're best off seeking _hard numbers_ about what people are like rather than relying on mere stereotypes. - -Fortunately, sometimes hard numbers are available! Taylor Fausak has been administering an annual State of Haskell survey [since 2017](https://taylor.fausak.me/2017/11/15/2017-state-of-haskell-survey-results/), and the [2018](https://taylor.fausak.me/2018/11/18/2018-state-of-haskell-survey-results/), [2019](https://taylor.fausak.me/2019/11/16/haskell-survey-results/), and [2020](https://taylor.fausak.me/2020/11/22/haskell-survey-results/) surveys include optional "What is your gender?" and "Do you identify as transgender?" questions, as well as the anonymous response data. - -I wrote a script to use these answers from the CSV response data for the 2018–2020 surveys to tally the number of cis and trans women among survey respondents. (In Python. Sorry.) - -``` -import csv - -survey_results_filenames = [ - "2018-11-18-2018-state-of-haskell-survey-results.csv", - "2019-11-16-state-of-haskell-survey-results.csv", - "2020-11-22-haskell-survey-results.csv", -] - -if __name__ == "__main__": - for results_filename in survey_results_filenames: - year, _ = results_filename.split("-", 1) - with open(results_filename) as results_file: - reader = csv.DictReader(results_file) - total = 0 - cis_f = 0 - trans_f = 0 - for row in reader: - total += 1 - # 2018 and 2019 CSV header has the full question, but - # 2020 uses sXqY format - gender_answer = ( - row.get("What is your gender?") or row.get("s7q2") - ) - if gender_answer == "Female": - transwer = ( - row.get("Do you identify as transgender?") or - row.get("s7q3") - ) - if transwer == "No": - cis_f += 1 - elif transwer == "Yes": - trans_f += 1 - print( - "{}: total: {}, " - "cis-♀: {} ({:.2f}%), trans-♀: {} ({:.2f}%)".format( - year, total, - cis_f, 100*cis_f/total, - trans_f, 100*trans_f/total, - ) - ) - -``` - -It prints this tally: - -``` -2018: total: 1361, cis-♀: 26 (1.91%), trans-♀: 19 (1.40%) -2019: total: 1211, cis-♀: 16 (1.32%), trans-♀: 16 (1.32%) -2020: total: 1348, cis-♀: 12 (0.89%), trans-♀: 21 (1.56%) -``` - -[TODO: wrap up]