Reply to: Ok, so I have a question...

[mudskipper]

You sound more like a consultant than a contractor.

Add £200 to your day rate!

[LondonManc]

You'd think so, would you. It's a confusing visualisation. Pretty though; that matters.

You sound more like a consultant than a contractor. Thankfully you included the emoticon afterwards.

[wattaj]

First chart reads like they only knew the gender of 93% of their members the previous year and now they know all of them. Clearly both sides can't increase their share so there must be some other text somewhere explaining it?

You'd think so, would you. It's a confusing visualisation. Pretty though; that matters.

[LondonManc]

First chart reads like they only knew the gender of 93% of their members the previous year and now they know all of them. Clearly both sides can't increase their share so there must be some other text somewhere explaining it?

[wattaj]

How many transgender single lesbian mothers who are freelance tupperware ladies are included?
I am aware that a number of dev types often identify as penguins too!

[Ghost of Tarbera]
Jings, I thought you were deed!
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[wattaj]

Anyone else find it strange that the only references that IPSE could cite was their own research rather than any independent source?

The references are at the bottom of the page. Though it would be more correct to use footnotes to highlight where the data comes from as it is used within the report.

[courtg9000]

Is the first chart doing two things?

1. What % of artisan cheesemakers are male / female
2. Of the total increase in artisan cheesemakers since 2018 what proportion of that increase is male / female

Probably the same for the second chart but this time looking at single stay at home parents needing fast broadband?

How many transgender single lesbian mothers who are freelance tupperware ladies are included?
I am aware that a number of dev types often identify as penguins too!

[jayn200]

Given that sex (not "gender" ) is binary; what was the gap that gave rise to the 7% increase in 12 months?


Reference: The Self-Employed Landscape Report 2019 | IPSE

Its not the greatest visualisation but the blue is % change of the total value for that specific gender from 2018 to 2019, not the % change of the % split between genders.

Data visualisation is still the wild west out there. Lots of people doing it without any training and you end up with weird visualisations like that.

[SimonMac]

Anyone else find it strange that the only references that IPSE could cite was their own research rather than any independent source?

[Scruff]

It must be the all singing, value for money, CRM that they obtained the stats from...

[wattaj]

Remember when ipse said average contractor rates were £7.64 an hour

We all laughed and took this piss, that report they paid £50K on was kicked into the long grass

Now it’s a reality so wait a while it might become reality.

I think that we might have hurt their feelings a bit that day. So sad.

[GhostofTarbera]

Ah, hold on a mo'; I think that their using a circle representative of the whole and not, as I had assumed, as a pie. That's the only explanation that I can come to for this nonsense.

The whole report is riddled with this rubbish.

Excellent work IPSE.

Remember when ipse said average contractor rates were £7.64 an hour

We all laughed and took this piss, that report they paid £50K on was kicked into the long grass

Now it’s a reality so wait a while it might become reality


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[wattaj]

Is the first chart doing two things?

1. What % of artisan cheesemakers are male / female
2. Of the total increase in artisan cheesemakers since 2018 what proportion of that increase is male / female

Yes, this is the conclusion that I came to as well. It's just not clear from the presentation of the data... that's the kind of thing that annoys me to an unnecessary degree.

[ladymuck]

Is the first chart doing two things?

1. What % of artisan cheesemakers are male / female
2. Of the total increase in artisan cheesemakers since 2018 what proportion of that increase is male / female

Probably the same for the second chart but this time looking at single stay at home parents needing fast broadband?

[wattaj]

Ah, hold on a mo'; I think that their using a circle representative of the whole and not, as I had assumed, as a pie. That's the only explanation that I can come to for this nonsense.

The whole report is riddled with this rubbish.

Excellent work IPSE.