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Audiophile demographics?

Why are there a disproportional number of male audiophiles?
Not sure if this is a silly question, but speaking for myself, I have never met a female audiophile.
I am sure they exist, but their scarcity begs the question as to why.
Is it merely that men have more of the "mine is bigger than yours" mentality, do men love gadgets and tools or is it something more sinister?
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@glupson

Intelligence is overrated. Didn’t help me much, for all I can figure out

glupson you are on a roll tonight!!!

remember that old sitcom sanford and son, redd foxx would call his son ’hey, you dummae’??  ...  lol

my old friends still call me ’dummae’ but i have no idea why, just can’t figure it out... but i am happy! :)
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i wonder what % of audiophiles are 6+ figure income? my guess is at least 75%.
audio2design
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Using a very narrow definition of audiophile perhaps.  From what I can tell, many are fixed income :-)
paulgardner
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@Tony1954  Could it be as simple as people who are more interested in things than in people become engineers? There are more male engineers than female. Interest in people vs. interest in things. 
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I wonder how many of us followed our same sex parent into our hobbies, thirst for technical knowledge, and magazines to read.  How much does a male vs female school curriculum influence our lust for science and solutions?  And, since it was mentioned, how much money do women spend on things to make them pretty, i.e.shoe comment?
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