Quantifying Discourse

Wolfe’s article had me thinking about how this study would work with an elementary age group; things like gender would still factor in, age would be neutral, and maybe ethnicity participation would be come out to be about the same. I ask this because children seem less susceptible-maybe innocent is too strong a word- to the hegemonic views on participation, they speak their minds freely. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a child of today’s computer literate age participating successfully online; but that brings up another point on the quality of the participation as opposed to just the amount. Does more discourse generally mean deeper insight? I didn’t get that connection from the article but  they are related. The date also seems unreliable since there is more than a 2:1 ration of women to men, most being white women.