33% of total user base on Google plus is actually female – so says Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen. Couple of days ago, news outlets reported skewed male-female ratio on Google plus, a conclusion derived from two statistical sites SocialStatistics and FindPeopleOnPlus.
Data on these sites reveal that the number of males on Google plus far exceeds the number of females. SocialStatistics says Google plus is made up of 86% males while its counterpart FindPeopleOnPlus says it’s about 73%.
But both these sites track only a handful of profiles and any conclusion from their data can be as good as a wild guess. SociaStatistics tracks 31,904 profiles while FindPeopleOnPlus,on a better side, tracks 947,996 profiles.
Paul Allen, who had earlier predicted that Google plus would reach 20 million by this weekend has a more accurate set of data. According to his estimations, which he arrived after hours of calculations, Google plus is made up of 66.4% Males and 33.6% Females. He also notes that the when compared to previous weeks, the female population on Google plus has dramatically increased.
Facebook on the other hand had more women than men in first few years. At one point women contributed two-thirds of its total user base. The fact that Facebook started in colleges while Google plus started in the Silicon Valley may be the reason why there is a stark difference in their gender ratios.
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