The Refreshment Factory

Gender and the Tumblr ratio

amwelles:

biteofpythias wrote:

After several conversations on the topic, I am really curious about this question:

What is the ratio following to followers by gender?

please reblog or email me your answer. You don’t have to disclose your actual number of followers, just a simply say your own gender and divide the total number of people you are following by total numbet of followers and the number of months you’ve been on tumblr. **** you do not have to look at whether your own followers are male or female**** My guess is women will have a ratio of 0.75 and men will be closer to 1.8. If I get enough of a sample I’ll post the results in a couple of days.

(via everybody) I have a ratio of 0.58. I’m female and have been tumbling for about 8 months.

I am female and I have a ratio of 0.62

Whatever You Can Do, I Can Do Better

Wow.  I have that same thought when I pass a disabled person too.  I thought I was just being crazy.

As for hell, only the cool people get in.

vinh:

I’ve had this knack for walking through crowds with ease since my days working at Disneyland years ago. I can quickly weave through people of all shapes and sizes, and I can avoid the sea of strollers without much effort. When I’m stuck behind a disabled person or a slower moving person, I kind of hesitate to pass by, because I feel like I’m showing off. I’m thinking, “Oh, look at me. Look at what I can do with both of my legs.”

Yes, Hell has reservations for me in the hottest ring. Whatever, I heard they do Happy Hour every Tuesday and Wednesday. How bad can it be?

I don't even know half of these titles. I suck.

gooneruk:

Have you read those books or are you just trying to appear smart?

Below is a list of 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing users. They sit on their shelf, perhaps to make their owner feel smart or well-rounded.

The meme comes with these instructions: Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.

This confirms what I’ve suspected about the books below, so ubiquitous on home shelves. I always silently judge people, thinking, I’ll bet you’ve never read that.

Now you can silently judge me! For example, I’ve never read 1984. I know, shocker.

• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

• Anna Karenina

• Crime and Punishment

• Catch-22

• One Hundred Years of Solitude

• Wuthering Heights

• The Silmarillion

• Life of Pi: a novel

• The Name of the Rose

• Don Quixote

• Moby Dick

• Ulysses

• Madame Bovary

• The Odyssey

• Pride and Prejudice

• Jane Eyre

• The Tale of Two Cities

• The Brothers Karamazov

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies

• War and Peace

• Vanity Fair

• The Time Traveler’s Wife

• The Iliad

• Emma

• The Blind Assassin

• The Kite Runner

• Mrs. Dalloway

• Great Expectations

• American Gods

• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

• Atlas Shrugged

• Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books

• Memoirs of a Geisha

• Middlesex

• Quicksilver

• Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West

• The Canterbury Tales

• The Historian: a novel

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

• Love in the Time of Cholera

• Brave New World

• The Fountainhead

• Foucault’s Pendulum

• Middlemarch

• Frankenstein

• The Count of Monte Cristo

• Dracula

• A Clockwork Orange

• Anansi Boys

• The Once and Future King

• The Grapes of Wrath

• The Poisonwood Bible: a novel

• 1984

• Angels & Demons

• The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)

• The Satanic Verses

• Sense and Sensibility

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

• Mansfield Park

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

• To the Lighthouse

• Tess of the D’Urbervilles

• Oliver Twist

• Gulliver’s Travels

• Les Misérables

• The Corrections

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

• Dune

• The Prince

• The Sound and the Fury

• Angela’s Ashes: a memoir

• The God of Small Things

• A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present

• Cryptonomicon

• Neverwhere

• A Confederacy of Dunces

• A Short History of Nearly Everything

• Dubliners

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being

• Beloved

• Slaughterhouse-five

• The Scarlet Letter

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves

• The Mists of Avalon

• Oryx and Crake: a novel

• Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed

• Cloud Atlas

• The Confusion

• Lolita

• Persuasion

• Northanger Abbey

• The Catcher in the Rye

• On the Road

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame

• Freakonomics

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

• The Aeneid

• Watership Down

• Gravity’s Rainbow

• The Hobbit

• In Cold Blood

• White Teeth

• Treasure Island

• David Copperfield

• The Three Musketeers