Originally Posted by davin

This is correct! The specific % varies a bit from region to region. I haven't checked recently to see if the forum over/under represents, so it's entirely possible that the forum poster population is higher or lower than that.

Originally Posted by And it was K

I'm a girl. However, we're on the internet. Real life doesn't matter. On here, everyone is an obese, socially awkward, basement-dwelling, unemployed, 12 year old white guy, who is scrawny and dropped out of college to play video games. Regardless of what they are in real life. This is equality.

On a more serious note, I don't care if people assume I'm a dude in games. They have no way of knowing, and I see no reason to correct them for the half hour we're going to be spending together.

Originally Posted by Saikaici

How many of the users on the forums are actually girls though?

Because assuming the sample space is the players of league(where approx 10% are female), we also have to look at the cases where the player goes on the forums, right?

So this poll gauges P[User == Female |User is on the forums]. Also, trolls that aren't honest. -.-

It's kind of interesting if the gender of players visiting the forums are ~20%(Accounting for trolls selecting female). Of course this makes multiple assumptions...

Originally Posted by Statscowski

If I may ask, how were the data collected about the gender % of players?

Originally Posted by davin

Correct. Forum polls in general tend to be rather inaccurate gauges, since self-selection happens pretty hard. It's entirely possible that forum posting skews to representing more female than the general playerbase does! I am going to check my data when I get in to work tomorrow Interest piqued!

Originally Posted by Saikaici

Sampling of the player databases, and probably analysis watching trends with known genders of players.

Not to be sexist, but the females that I do know that play often tend to play female champs. When I see the match history of a female player, it seems like they have an ~80% or greater percentage of female champs they play.

In general, girls play female champs more often than most. If you take that and look at the people who mostly play female champs... well. You get a good idea. Also, other trends I'm sure help give a good estimate.

Originally Posted by Saikaici

Sampling of the player databases, and probably analysis watching trends with known genders of players.

Not to be sexist, but the females that I do know that play often tend to play female champs. When I see the match history of a female player, it seems like they have an ~80% or greater percentage of female champs they play.

In general, girls play female champs more often than most. If you take that and look at the people who mostly play female champs... well. You get a good idea. Also, other trends I'm sure help give a good estimate.

Originally Posted by Saikaici

Sampling of the player databases, and probably analysis watching trends with known genders of players.

Not to be sexist, but the females that I do know that play often tend to play female champs. When I see the match history of a female player, it seems like they have an ~80% or greater percentage of female champs they play.

In general, girls play female champs more often than most. If you take that and look at the people who mostly play female champs... well. You get a good idea. Also, other trends I'm sure help give a good estimate.

Originally Posted by Saikaici

Sampling of the player databases, and probably analysis watching trends with known genders of players.

Not to be sexist, but the females that I do know that play often tend to play female champs. When I see the match history of a female player, it seems like they have an ~80% or greater percentage of female champs they play.

Edit: Removed for redundancy, late night inattention kicking in.