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dr_tectonic's advice, and thanks to www.20000-names.com, here's a better study of those results. We're still not at the level I'd quite like to be, but it's getting there.
So looking at, say, the 2006 data, we did have 30% unclear; that's now down to 16%. (Have a look here for the data from last time; once again, CHI'86, '88 and '89 have only initials in the database, so there's no data for those years.) We're now reasonably certain about 65% men, up from our previous estimate of 59% men. We now believe that women constitute 17% of CHI paper authors, up from 14% with our previous estimate. Note that *decreasing* the percentage of unknowns disproportionately seems to *increase* the percentage of men: one hypothesis that might explain that is that the 'unknown' names are likely to be from cultures with less women HCI researchers than the European, American and African names that dominate my gendered-name database. Just for an example, here's the names it didn't know from 2006:
François Jean-Daniel Virpi Ruoran Mihir Shiry Mihir Ruoran Clare-Marie Jinjuan Pedram Boi Qixing Kellogg Carman Leysia Raman Maneesh Gahgene Raman Rafi Samer Sriram Pourang Chia Ravin Min Shumin Jean-Marc Duen Nette Maneesh Weixin Guozhong Hongan Tapan Sasikumar Kaushik Kentaro Chunyuan François Min Simson Crysta Duck Jin Jin Chang Sung Hayes Shumeet Abhishek Ravin Shamsi Maneesh Eytan Muhd Shun'ichi Tomonori Kazutaka Masataka Tovi Maneesh Ravin Anind Lui Christof Herre Hermina Desney Shengdong Maneesh Shuo Xiaocao Weiwei Xiaofeng Yuanchun Fan Jarmo Saurabh Anqi Esko Mattias Mattias Zhiwei Hrvoje Ravin
In general those look reasonable to be missing from my list: I'm a bit surpirsed it missed Mattias, and I'm delighted that someone is called Duck. How did I miss that at the conference? Pity about missing Francois, but there you go. I had been a bit concerned about "Kellogg" being in there, assuming that Wendy's name had got screwed up somehow, but no, it's a Mr. (?) Kellogg Booth. I could go through by hand and do these -- between guessing myself and a bit of google I should be able to figure it out -- but it's not really my idea of fun. Thoughts, anyone?
dr_tectonic's advice, and thanks to www.20000-names.com, here's a better study of those results. We're still not at the level I'd quite like to be, but it's getting there. So looking at, say, the 2006 data, we did have 30% unclear; that's now down to 16%. (Have a look here for the data from last time; once again, CHI'86, '88 and '89 have only initials in the database, so there's no data for those years.) We're now reasonably certain about 65% men, up from our previous estimate of 59% men. We now believe that women constitute 17% of CHI paper authors, up from 14% with our previous estimate. Note that *decreasing* the percentage of unknowns disproportionately seems to *increase* the percentage of men: one hypothesis that might explain that is that the 'unknown' names are likely to be from cultures with less women HCI researchers than the European, American and African names that dominate my gendered-name database. Just for an example, here's the names it didn't know from 2006:
François Jean-Daniel Virpi Ruoran Mihir Shiry Mihir Ruoran Clare-Marie Jinjuan Pedram Boi Qixing Kellogg Carman Leysia Raman Maneesh Gahgene Raman Rafi Samer Sriram Pourang Chia Ravin Min Shumin Jean-Marc Duen Nette Maneesh Weixin Guozhong Hongan Tapan Sasikumar Kaushik Kentaro Chunyuan François Min Simson Crysta Duck Jin Jin Chang Sung Hayes Shumeet Abhishek Ravin Shamsi Maneesh Eytan Muhd Shun'ichi Tomonori Kazutaka Masataka Tovi Maneesh Ravin Anind Lui Christof Herre Hermina Desney Shengdong Maneesh Shuo Xiaocao Weiwei Xiaofeng Yuanchun Fan Jarmo Saurabh Anqi Esko Mattias Mattias Zhiwei Hrvoje Ravin
In general those look reasonable to be missing from my list: I'm a bit surpirsed it missed Mattias, and I'm delighted that someone is called Duck. How did I miss that at the conference? Pity about missing Francois, but there you go. I had been a bit concerned about "Kellogg" being in there, assuming that Wendy's name had got screwed up somehow, but no, it's a Mr. (?) Kellogg Booth. I could go through by hand and do these -- between guessing myself and a bit of google I should be able to figure it out -- but it's not really my idea of fun. Thoughts, anyone?
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Date: 2006-08-31 05:02 pm (UTC)I don't know how far you can beat it down anyway, given how common ambiguous English names like Kelly, Jean, and Pat are.
Hey, look, a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisex_name