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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by yamrzou on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:48PM (#25393322)
Not on HN, though.
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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by goshx on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:02PM (#25393477)
Why not?
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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by yamrzou on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:05PM (#25394072)
Since I'm being downvoted for what I thought is a common sense answer, here is a more elaborated one:

1. HN is a mostly technical forum, with a technically inclined user base.

2. Statistics show that there are less women working in Tech than men [1,2]. This can be translated in interest in Tech.

3. Only a fraction of those women would be on HN, and only a fraction of them would be pregnant.

4. One more data point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5520342

You can therefore safely assume that it's a very tiny number, which can not explain the NO responses of this poll.

[1] https://www.womentech.net/en-fr/women-technology-statistics

[2] https://www.isemag.com/2020/10/telecom-the-latest-stats-on-w...

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by yamrzou on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:28PM (#25393705)
Because last I checked, HN was not pregnant women's favorite forum.

You could create a poll if you doubt it, I trust my gut :)

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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine? by bmsleight_ on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:09AM (#25397747)
Poll created - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25397737 As I think it is also a good discussion on Gender Identities.
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