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Dave-to-girl ratio

Concept of the day: Dave-to-Girl Ratio: the ratio between males named Dave and females in university computer-science schools. This ratio sometimes exceeds 1.0, and apparently it's not getting any better. (via TechDirt)

(Not sure about guys named Dave, but a significant proportion of the computer-science students at Monash in 1992-1995 were named Andrew. Whether they outnumbered women is unknown.)

There are 3 comments on "Dave-to-girl ratio":

Posted by: Dave
http://leviathan.weblogs.com
Thu May 22 23:38:10 2003

But what about women called Dave (or Andrew)?

Posted by: cos
http://polydistortion.net/monkey/
Fri May 23 01:07:20 2003

actually, at Monash around the same time, a different group of people I hung around with had lots of Daves.

in the last 3-4 years, the development team I was working with had about 3 or 4 Daves over the time of the project, too. we had to give them all nicknames so there was no confusion...

Posted by: Ben
http://leviathan.weblogs.com
Sat May 24 14:59:28 2003

Well I've only ever been in the room with one other person called Ben at a time. Sort of a duality/Sith thing I suppose.

May the Force be With You.

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