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Hmm. "Study 1 revealed significant aggregation in seating patterns on two easily observed characteristics: glasses wearing and sex. Study 2 replicated this finding with race, sex, glasses wearing, hair length, and hair color." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117
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Sarah observes further up thread that online affinity groups tend to be more varied, but I suspect further structure. When I used to do larger ribbonfarm adjacent events like refactor camp I noticed the attendees were mostly very different from me, but clustered with each other
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For eg, there has always been a tall, reed-thin subgroup of nerdy guys. Significantly taller and thinner than me and even the US average. Even after controlling for race (several unusually tall/thin Indians, including fobs like myself). Maybe long people read long form blogs.
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There has also always been a small, neat, compact subset, shorter than me. Might be an age cohort effect. The few closest to me physically (5’7”, medium build) also tended to be nearer my age. Most readers who came to events have been 10-15y younger.
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