As most of you might know, Scratch asks your for your gender when you join. It doesn't show up anywhere on your profile, so why does Scratch ask you for it?

for statistics. the st can also refer to this field to know what gender to refer to you as (if you don't have pronouns in your bio)

for stats

I believe that this information, including people's birthdate and location, is used for statistics.

wvj wrote:

for stats

What?! How can gender statistics be helpful to the Scratch Team?!

Leekalo wrote:

wvj wrote:

for stats

What?! How can gender statistics be helpful to the Scratch Team?!

Bragging rights. On the Scratch Foundation website they claim that 45% of users are female, which is pretty important with that whole women in STEM thing.

fdreerf wrote:

Leekalo wrote:

wvj wrote:

for stats

What?! How can gender statistics be helpful to the Scratch Team?!

Bragging rights. On the Scratch Foundation website they claim that 45% of users are female, which is pretty important with that whole women in STEM thing.

Yes, but it is at least semi inaccurate. I accidently clicked a different option than I meant to when I was registering, and by the time I realized it, the next page was loading and it was too late to change it lol.

Maybe stats

statistics only

fdreerf wrote:

Leekalo wrote:

wvj wrote:

for stats

What?! How can gender statistics be helpful to the Scratch Team?!

Bragging rights. On the Scratch Foundation website they claim that 45% of users are female, which is pretty important with that whole women in STEM thing.

It ain't bragging rights until the stats more closely match the known population of females in the world (which is currently 49.5% at the time of this post. ).

But on a serious note, stats are kind of needed to see what the global outreach is like. While the issue of STEM typically having less outreach to females is known, there other factors that come into play, such as estimated age and country of origin. (Other example factors taken into consideration: At what age were males vs females introduced to Scratch? What are the male-female stats like for other countries?)

It would also be interesting to see what the outreach is on users that fall in between the male-female spectrum (though there isn't currently any good world stats on that to do a more proper study). But that's starting to delve off-topic.

Make sense

Queer_Royalty wrote:

fdreerf wrote:

Leekalo wrote:

wvj wrote:

for stats

What?! How can gender statistics be helpful to the Scratch Team?!

Bragging rights. On the Scratch Foundation website they claim that 45% of users are female, which is pretty important with that whole women in STEM thing.

Yes, but it is at least semi inaccurate. I accidently clicked a different option than I meant to when I was registering, and by the time I realized it, the next page was loading and it was too late to change it lol.

But that would happen at roughly similar rates for all groups to kind of balance it out.

fdreerf wrote:

Leekalo wrote:

wvj wrote:

for stats

What?! How can gender statistics be helpful to the Scratch Team?!

Bragging rights. On the Scratch Foundation website they claim that 45% of users are female, which is pretty important with that whole women in STEM thing.

Braggging rights for what?! And what is STEM?

Leekalo wrote:

fdreerf wrote:

Leekalo wrote:

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Bragging rights. On the Scratch Foundation website they claim that 45% of users are female, which is pretty important with that whole women in STEM thing.

Braggging rights for what?! And what is STEM?

1. Bragging rights for having 45% of users being female.

2. STEM is an acronym for:

Science
Technology
Engineering
Math

1492864 wrote:

Leekalo wrote:

fdreerf wrote:

Leekalo wrote:

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Bragging rights. On the Scratch Foundation website they claim that 45% of users are female, which is pretty important with that whole women in STEM thing.

Braggging rights for what?! And what is STEM?

1. Bragging rights for having 45% of users being female.

2. STEM is an acronym for:

Science
Technology
Engineering
Math

Why would the Scratch Team brag about having 45% of their users be female? What is the women in STEM thing?

Leekalo wrote:

Why would the Scratch Team brag about having 45% of their users be female? What is the women in STEM thing?
STEM feilds have been historically filled with men so women are encouraged to even it out a bit.

pandacorn_owl wrote:

Leekalo wrote:

Why would the Scratch Team brag about having 45% of their users be female? What is the women in STEM thing?

STEM feilds have been historically filled with men so women are encouraged to even it out a bit.

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For statistical purposes.

PaddlerGames wrote:

For statistical purposes.

I think we have established this already five times

mtech22 wrote:

for statistics. the st can also refer to this field to know what gender to refer to you as (if you don't have pronouns in your bio)

sunriise wrote:

I believe that this information, including people's birthdate and location, is used for statistics.

wvj wrote:

for stats

Venatus_123 wrote:

Maybe stats

-0Nebula0- wrote:

statistics only

fdreerf wrote:

PaddlerGames wrote:

For statistical purposes.

I think we have established this already five times

mtech22 wrote:

for statistics. the st can also refer to this field to know what gender to refer to you as (if you don't have pronouns in your bio)

sunriise wrote:

I believe that this information, including people's birthdate and location, is used for statistics.

wvj wrote:

for stats

Venatus_123 wrote:

Maybe stats

-0Nebula0- wrote:

statistics only

Yea ig