On: Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds

[blcknight]

This could just be titled “Nearly half of all new people are women!”

[rory → blcknight]

Could it? The article says:

> For decades, other surveys have found that around 10% to 20% of American gun owners were women.

~15% -> ~47% is a pretty notable demographic shift IMO. Imagine if the same shift happened for new software engineers.

[vulcan01 → blcknight]

First sentence of the article, emphasis mine:

> Close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since the beginning of 2019 have been women, a shift for a market long dominated by men, according to a new study.

[moate → blcknight]

Not so fast! When it comes to demographics for groups, things don't always break down along populations. Think about how there we don't see women as ~51% of computer engineers.

That said, previous numbers show that gun ownership by gender was about 2:1 in favor of men (45% of American men own guns vs 19% of women).

This does show a pretty big spike in the number of women purchasing guns.

[Supermancho → blcknight]

I dont think that's communicating the same trend.