Another pathetic dim witted tweeting driver...

[theclaud]

In terms of gender, the United Kingdom Twitter demographics is evenly split. Males and females are split at 49% and 51% respectively

#mythbusters

 

[Markymark]

In terms of gender, the United Kingdom Twitter demographics is evenly split. Males and females are split at 49% and 51% respectively

#mythbusters

This says different for social media on the whole. Maybe twitter is different because you can't talk as much

 

[theclaud]

This says different for social media on the whole. Maybe twitter is different because you can't talk as much

http://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/cameron1997.pdf

#mythbusters

 

[jefmcg]

This says different for social media on the whole. Maybe twitter is different because you can't talk as much

Actually, it's apples and oranges. @theclaud link says that around 1/2 the users of twitter are female. This says that 76% of online females use facebook, vs 66% of men, but if more men are "online" than women (which I think is true) it could easily still be 50/50 or even more skewed towards towards men.

That site obviously has an agenda that is helped by showing that more women than men are on social media, and found a way of making statistics show that is true.

 

[jefmcg]

No! How's that work then?

I'm not really sure what you are asking. I know the obvious question is "what percentage of facebook users are women?" and that site doesn't really answer that, using a much less intuitive metric.

 

[John the Monkey]

Yet again, this thread takes a surprising turn. Will we get twelve pages out of this change of subject?

 

[Drago]

I won't get the blame for this one though.



























Or will I?

 

[sheffgirl]

I unfriended someone on Facebook the other day (male) for posting a video with the comment 'I hate cyclists'. It was a funny video, but it just annoyed me, there was no need for it

 

[cd365]

I hope you told them first that you were going to unfriend them.

 

[benb]

*Ahem* - decisions in Crown Courts do not set a binding precedent (although they may be persuasive), as the decisions of trial courts do not bind them.

AIUI, decisions in Crown Court do set a binding precedent for lower courts, ie Mags. They do not set binding precedents for other Crown Courts.

 

[benb]

Crown courts do not set binding precedents for magistrates courts as they are not courts of record.

I stand corrected. Thank you.

 

[theclaud]

I stand corrected. Thank you.

Don't encourage him.

 

[raleighnut]

Sorry, I wasn't asking anything, just slightly sarcastically observing that statistics can be made to show that almost anything is true.

So can polls if you word the questions correctly/sneakily (delete as applicable)

 

[theclaud]

It is fair to acknowledge it on those occasions he is right.

Fair, but not always necessary.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Bet the messages from plod went down well. I don't think, however frustrated you might be, saying you're going to run cyclists over is an understandable thing to do.

In the heat of the moment it's easy to say silly things. I've got no real problem with her saying this. If she had gone on to mow them down or use her car in any offensive sort of way I would think very differently, obviously.
Just saying stuff though doesn't rate too highly on my list of things to get annoyed about. There's loads of people I'd say I'd like to kill, but as yet I haven't done it.