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netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2009-08-28 11:00 am

A poll for the gents on reading

Please only participate in this poll if you self-identify as having a male gender.
I know it's hard to remember what-all you've read recently, but please try.

UPDATE: for anthologies, please count them as the gender of the majority of the authors.
FURTHER UPDATE: Please don't eliminate books from reporting in this poll based on their topic or genre, then comment afterward to tell me how the stats would be different if you hadn't done that. The poll is not intended to be aimed only at fiction, or SF - the question at the end is an add-on. The goal of the poll is to survey the genders of the authors of ANY BOOKS you read in the past 2 months.


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[personal profile] ckd 2009-08-28 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I put in an extra .5 for the female contributions to the two anthologies; I think they averaged out at about 25% each, though I haven't gone back to count stories/pages/etc. Neither of them was the Mammoth Book of anything....

My numbers are pretty badly skewed by re-reading right now, since of the 17 books (15 in my most recent booklog post, plus two since then), three are by Robert Heinlein, another three are Brian Daley's Han Solo books, and two are Bujold's Chalion books. My re-reading tends to be streaky like that.
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[identity profile] netmouse.livejournal.com 2009-08-28 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
well, any time period is going to have a couple people who are skewed like that. you're probably ballanced by the female-authored series Alex just read in one fell swoop.

[identity profile] rbradakis.livejournal.com 2009-08-28 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I also ignored anthologies.