They Won't Play a Lady-O on Country Radio
I don&#x27;t understand why they expected to see 11% back-to-back female songs instead of 11% * 11% = 1.2%<p>&gt; If you listened to this station non-stop from midnight to 11:59pm today, you’d likely only hear 3 back-to-back songs by women, compared to 245 from men.<p>&gt; Songs by women are already severely underplayed, making up only 11% of total plays in 2022. Even at this low rate of play, we’d expect to see 30-40 back-to-back songs by women for this same day, like in these 10 “coin flip” simulations. In reality, we see 3.<p>It would be nicer if they showed their work. Simulating this in Javascript with 300 random songs with 11% female artists results in:<p><pre><code>  let songs = new Array(300).fill(0).map(x =&gt; Math.random() &gt; .11 ? &#x27;m&#x27; : &#x27;f&#x27;);
  let bb = {f: 0, m: 0};
  for (let i = 1; i &lt; songs.length; ++i) {
    if (songs[i-1] === songs[i]) ++bb[songs[i]]
  };
  bb.pf = 100 * bb.f&#x2F;(songs.length - 1);
  bb.pm = 100 * bb.m&#x2F;(songs.length - 1);
  console.log(bb);
</code></pre>
The output is 3 female back-to-back songs and 240 male. (Your random numbers might vary.)<p><pre><code>  {f: 3, m: 240, pf: 1.0033444816053512, pm: 80.2675585284281}
</code></pre>
&gt; We looked at 19 dates throughout 2022 for this same radio station and found that out of 6,474 songs, only 64 (0.99%) were back-to-back songs by women plays. For back-to-back songs by men, it was 4,231 (65.53%). Back-to-back mixed-gender ensembles and collaborations account for 36 (0.56%) songs.<p>with `...new Array(6474)...`:<p><pre><code>  {f: 88, m: 5123, pf: 1.3594932797775374, pm: 79.14413718523096}</code></pre>