In the March 8, 2018 issue of the Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies there is an article on pages 57 to 70 by Kausar Perveen, Yamna Hasan and Abdur Rahman Aleemi titled Glossophobia: The Fear of Public Speaking in Female and Male Students of University of Karachi. They surveyed convenience samples of 63 females and 63 males, and asked them if they had a High, Moderately High, Moderate, Moderately Low, or Low level for that fear.
Percentage results from their Figure 1 are shown above. For females, 20.6% had a High level, 41.3% had a Moderately High level, and 38.1% had a Moderate level. For males, only 6.63% had a High level, 33.3% had a Moderately High level, and 28.6% had a Moderate level, 27.0% had a Moderately Low level, and 4.8% had a Low level. Because of the tiny sample size used, these percentages have a large Margin of Error. I have shown the plus and minus for Moderately High (12.2% for females and 11.6% for males). Typical commercial surveys use a sample size of 1000 to make their margin of error about 3%.
It is possible to also analyze their results via a Fear Score on a scale from 1 to 5, a weighted average calculated from those percentages according to this formula:
Fear Score = [5x(% for High) = 4x(% for Moderately High)
+ 3x(% for Moderate) + 2x(% for Moderately Low) + 1X(% for Low)]/100
Fear scores are 3.825 for females and 3.093 for males, so females are 0.732 higher. Back on October 30, 2015 I discussed fear score calculation in a blog post titled According to the 2015 Chapman Survey of American Fears, adults are less than Afraid of federal government Corruption and only Slightly Afraid of Public Speaking.
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