A Look At EN World's Stats & Demographics

Henry · Jan 9, 2017

I'm personally pleased that the 40- and 50-somethings are no longer the dominant group - it means the hobby will continue. And Russ, you should be very proud of the community you've built - I don't know if such a thing could be built anymore outside of Reddit or Facebook.

aramis erak · Jan 9, 2017

Ancalagon said:
I too am a bit concerned about the low amount of women.

En World really doesn't seem like a hotbed of sexism, but maybe there is something I'm (or we are) not seeing?

The high rates of misogynistic males in gaming, perhaps?

Ricochet · Jan 9, 2017

Interesting read!

People who use Ghostery and other such features to avoid being tracked is a swiftly-growing segment of the internet's population. These are mostly 20-30 year-olds, and they aren't being accounted for here or in other statistical analysis. The price for anonymity is perhaps exclusion, as websites will cater to what they know, but the risk is scaring away a segment of their visitors which might be the key people when it comes to economic potential. It's a fascinating time to be on the web, and some companies/websites will be focusing on an altogether wrong segment if they only go by empirical data (most can track sales by age, gender etc. too, of course, where people forfeit anonymity more than on page views).

Ricochet · Jan 9, 2017

aramis erak said:
The high rates of misogynistic males in gaming, perhaps?

I think it is simply women not being particularly interested in forum communities compared to men (they skew more heavily in Facebook and similar settings/websites than sites like EN World) so you encounter more of these types. They aren't representative of the site as a whole, because people who frequent the forums are maybe 10% of those who frequent EN World. Also, a larger group of males than females are hardcore gamers.

JustinCase · Jan 9, 2017

Fascinating.

It might be of interest that the only true Dutch D&D forum has shut down in the last year (after a few years of rapid decline), so I can imagine visitor numbers from the Netherlands have grown. That is at least partially the reason for my own increasing presence here.

Venley · Jan 9, 2017

ParagonofVirtue said:
I think it is simply women not being particularly interested in forum communities compared to men (they skew more heavily in Facebook and similar settings/websites than sites like EN World) so you encounter more of these types. They aren't representative of the site as a whole, because people who frequent the forums are maybe 10% of those who frequent EN World. Also, a larger group of males than females are hardcore gamers.

Partly true. For myself as a woman I am now wary of forums given past experiences. This is definitely one of the better sites.
Why subject oneself voluntarily to what is worse than encountered in real life?

Venley · Jan 9, 2017

ParagonofVirtue said:
Interesting read!

People who use Ghostery and other such features to avoid being tracked is a swiftly-growing segment of the internet's population. These are mostly 20-30 year-olds, and they aren't being accounted for here or in other statistical analysis. The price for anonymity is perhaps exclusion, as websites will cater to what they know, but the risk is scaring away a segment of their visitors which might be the key people when it comes to economic potential. It's a fascinating time to be on the web, and some companies/websites will be focusing on an altogether wrong segment if they only go by empirical data (most can track sales by age, gender etc. too, of course, where people forfeit anonymity more than on page views).

Ghostery user here. One 55+ female not being counted.

Morrus · Jan 9, 2017

ParagonofVirtue said:
Interesting read!

People who use Ghostery and other such features to avoid being tracked is a swiftly-growing segment of the internet's population. These are mostly 20-30 year-olds, and they aren't being accounted for here or in other statistical analysis. The price for anonymity is perhaps exclusion, as websites will cater to what they know, but the risk is scaring away a segment of their visitors which might be the key people when it comes to economic potential. It's a fascinating time to be on the web, and some companies/websites will be focusing on an altogether wrong segment if they only go by empirical data (most can track sales by age, gender etc. too, of course, where people forfeit anonymity more than on page views).

That's certainly a thing, as the above stats include only 65-68% of the traffic here.

That said, as a sample, 65% is enormous. Generally speaking, when you take samples, it doesn't change much once you have over a couple of percent of the total, and if you have data on 5% it's not really going to change at all.

For example, for a population of 4M (which is the yearly unique visitor count here) with a confidence level of 95% with a 1% margin of error, you only need a sample size of 9,581, or 0.24%. We need a sample of 0.24%, and we have one of 65%. If we increased that sample size from 65% to 100% of the traffic, those percentages above aren't going to change.

(Some statistics professor is going to come along now and say I did that wrong!)

Arilyn · Jan 9, 2017

I think the low number of women is because of the high numbers of 5e fans EN World attracts. EN world is bringing in lots of news from many differing gaming sources, but if you look at the forums and the comments attached to stories, it is 5e which attracts the most attention. Dungeons & Dragons has always had difficulty attracting a large female fan base. This is not necessarily true of gaming in general. FATE, for example has a lot of women players, and there is a lot of women posting on FATE sites. Now, D&D is the most played game, so in that sense, there are fewer female gamers, but looking outside D&D things are becoming more equal. I think the current edition of D&D should be able to attract more female gamers, but it doesn't seem to be making great strides in this direction. Perhaps the current crop of modules tend to be too dungeony?

MoonSong · Jan 13, 2017

On the plus side: Wee I'm special and you don't!

On the minus side: Gee I didn't think I was that outnumbered.... maybe I should stop coming....Nah just kidding.

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Now that I think of it, I'm not seeing a lot of prominent female posters here anymore. For example it's been ages since I last saw [MENTION=9037]Elf Witch[/MENTION] post something...

A Look At EN World's Stats & Demographics

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