User talk:WhatamIdoing/Editors are people

Notes

When a source is linked, the number comes from this year. When a source is not noted, the number comes from the linked Wikipedia article. Generally, these numbers come from US adults, adjusted for Wikipedia's unusual male/female ratio (85:15).

WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:19, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

What is the "them"? The registered accounts, the users in the last month or last year? Can you reword to make clear? You probably need to give the maths or formula in a footnote rather than the talk page as I had a look at the numbers and sources and couldn't make any sense of them and didn't know whether you had accounted for male/female or what the ratio you used was.

Do we have any idea of the US vs other countries ratio for editors? This could be useful to at least caution that the US statistics may not be accurate elsewhere either due to living in a less (or more) mentally unhealthy country or having quite different criteria for these conditions or not getting diagnosed. Some of these conditions are considered life-long but others, such as anxiety disorder, there are statistics for whether someone had it in the last year. So do you use that, or the "has ever had it" statistic? Are all these numbers population estimates or number diagnosed?

Of course it raises the question as to whether any of these conditions is correlated with a desire to edit or not edit Wikipedia. For example, your source has 1.2% of men meeting the criteria for psychopath (though that's an estimate, not number diagnosed). If there are 164 million men in the US (2021) then that gives us almost 2 million male psychopaths (a chunk of whom are in prison). If being a psychopath drew one towards editing Wikipedia the numbers could be far far higher, though hopefully many of the accounts get blocked. -- Colin°^Talk 08:55, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

I'm wondering if we have any stats for how editors are not in fact "people", in the sense that we don't represent humanity or even the populations of our main bases (e.g., US or UK). Sex is one obvious factor that has been discussed elsewhere. But what about age, education status, employment, marriage/relationships, and ownership of a home computer, car, house, pet? Would an "Editors are not people" page or section be an amusing balance? The statistics also likely vary for "has ever made an edit on Wikipedia" to "Considers themselves a Wikipedian, with a user page and some articles created". How weird are that last group? My guess is probably "very". -- Colin°^Talk 12:23, 2 January 2024 (UTC)