...I received a total of 407 replies.
Professor Pande estimates that there are approximately 100,000 participants in Folding@home.... then this survey sample represents only 0.4% of total population of project.
Now I realize that numbers come from somewhere, but that's one hell of a stretch (to extrapolate a gender-based percentage of the project) based on 7 of 407:100,000 that responded to a social-media survey.
It's even more of a stretch to base some 2017 campaign on stretched 2013 numbers.
Stretch - yes - however that's all the data available to the public isn't it? In a 16+ year history of FAH, it's doubtful there is much of a paradigm shift between 2013 and 2017. Their #iamoneinamillion campaign is just starting to gain minimal traction. You are free to mine social media for female accounts posting about #Foldingathome, #WGC, #Rosetta, etc and make your own conclusions. Report back and let everyone know.
There are certainly women and girls who participate, but they are rare (many obvious female FAH usernames appear to be Eastern European or Russian, so the survey may not have reached those individuals due to the language barrier if it was English only). It's rare to find female accounts online who post about FAH. More female participation == more adoption (and if they pick CureCoin, FLDC, or GRC - the more potential for spend-ability of these coins).
This was a great story CureCoin posted on their social media feeds (unfortunately it wasn't even caught by folding@home)... these are rare instances:
http://kjzz.org/content/402462/paradise-valley-schools-students-connect-worldwide-web-researchGood luck in your search...
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