Google+ Statistics On Overdrive

http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/statistics

by taxonomyman • 15 years ago

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noinput• 15 years ago

~1% of gender answered "Other?" Awesome.

bonch• 15 years ago

People who think they're making some kind of statement by refusing to state their gender.

btilly• 15 years ago

Not necessarily. There are a number of legitimate ways that someone's online gender can be ambiguous.

For instance one person in my circles is male, has a long-established female online identity, and has stated a gender of "other".

For a different example, how about someone who is trans, has had hormones, but has not yet had the operation?

jamesteow2• 15 years ago

Users "looking" for love by gender: Men - 94.09%

How surprising.

dialtone• 15 years ago

Obtained like that it's not that interesting... A more interesting number would have been 'looking for love' but weighted on the size of the gender group.

That results in: 2.3% of Men looking for love and 0.37% of Women. These are very little numbers.

jamesteow2• 15 years ago

Thanks for that clarification.

ojilles• 15 years ago

The data set must not be very accurate. Belgium in the top 10 list of countries with Germany missing?

true_religion• 15 years ago

You're complaining about Belgium when Nepal is on the top 10 list?

taxonomyman2• 15 years ago

A lot of the location data is free text (ie. unstructured). Not easy to parse. Lat/Long more reliable, but for now, we're using AVG Lat/Long to determine country.Country data is a little skewed (for now).

jsavimbi• 15 years ago

3 people in Massachusetts and I'm not included anywhere. They need to spin up another cube.

streblo• 15 years ago

Which one of you is on the north pole?

iamdave• 15 years ago

http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/profiles/1020130743965167653...

This guy.

statictype• 15 years ago

How random is this sampling? The second highest country on the list is India (kind of understandable). The third highest is Sri Lanka. I'm not sure how it got that high. Also, UK rates below Paraguay and Nepal.

taxonomyman2• 15 years ago

It's random in the sense that we let our crawlers just start at an arbitrary profile and stopped until we have about a million. Pretty random, thoughts?

DanielRibeiro• 15 years ago

Random graph walking can be random, but it is not always. The following paper on random walks on graphs as a tool for derandomizing probability algorithms gives insight on this, as well as the probability of a random walk on a RANDOM graph being a random sampling: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~nati/PAPERS/expander_survey.pdf

Wikipedia's page on random walks is also pretty insightful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk

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