Comments on: Results From The Survey, 2011

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:54:28 +0000

No problem, Jemaleddin. For a slightly less detailed version of those charts as well as several related graphs, see chapter 6, “Perceptions of Bias”.

By: Jemaleddin

Jemaleddin — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:16:02 +0000

Wow – thank you, Eric! I didn’t expect my idle curiosity to turn into that! That’s a lot to think about!

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:11:34 +0000

Following up: here are those first two pieces of data, Jemaleddin. Apologies for the presentation; my CSS isn’t anything like what Jason designed for the actual reports.

Perception of gender bias by gender
	Yes	Maybe	No
Female	19.7%	20.2%	60.1%
Male	0.9%	2.1%	97.0%
Other	12.9%	14.3%	72.9%
Overall	4.3%	5.4%	90.3%

Percentages are based on 15,481 respondents (98.6% of all respondents)

Perception of ethnic/origin bias by ethnicity/origin
	Yes	Maybe	No
Asian / Pacific Rim	5.0%	9.8%	85.2%
Black / African	4.2%	6.9%	88.9%
Hispanic / Latino	5.4%	6.2%	88.5%
Indigenous / Native	2.1%	12.5%	85.4%
Other	6.4%	7.3%	86.3%
White / Caucasian	4.2%	5.0%	90.8%
Overall	4.3%	5.4%	90.3%

Percentages are based on 15,450 respondents (98.4% of all respondents)

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:18:03 +0000

We did some of that in previous years, Jemaleddin, and I could probably come up with the numbers for at least the first of those to post here, and probably the first two. The third is a LOT harder, and much depends on your starting assumptions. For example, in last year’s report we had a chapter titled “Evidence of Bias” where we fine-sliced a couple of cohorts (e.g., ”Perception of gender bias by gender, US Master’s degree with 5+ years in the field”) but we were mostly guessing about what would be illuminating cohorts. Those are definitely the areas where we’d love to see people produce numbers on the cohorts that specifically interest them. I would be beyond ecstatic to link to other findings along those lines.

By: Jemaleddin

Jemaleddin — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:07:17 +0000

I wish I had the stats chops to tease apart the questions like:

* How different is the perception of gender bias between men/women?
* Same thing for race?
* Controlling for education, years of experience, how do salaries break down by age/race/gender?

…etc. My wife the economist could probably do this, but I don’t think I can afford her.