🖙Counting Friends
I've always been intrigued by polls about the number and makeup of people's friends1 I was nerdsniped (by myself, basically) to actually look up the gender breakdown of people's friends for another post.
I crunched some numbers myself because I wanted to separate "All" and "Most."
| Gender/ Number of friends of the same gender | All | Most | Some | Only a few | None | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A man | 31.4% | 30% | 28% | 8.1% | 2.5% | 0.1% |
| A woman | 41.3% | 29.3% | 18.9% | 8.1% | 2.2% | 0.1% |
| In some other way | 19% | 14.7% | 34.6% | 17.8% | 14% | 0% |
| Refused | 16.4% | 71.3% | 12.4% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| All People | 36.2% | 29.5% | 23.4% | 8.2% | 2.5% | 0.1% |
"In some other way" is from the survey, not me. I think they asked how the person identifies, but it looks a bit strange out of context (although maybe better than a bald "Other").
It's more common for women to have an entirely all-female friend group than men to have an all-male group. Due to toxic masculinity, I probably would have guessed the opposite. Huh!
I don't know what this says about me. Maybe I'll ask my friends next time we hang out!↩