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[–] OhBlindOne [S] 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

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[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

Well, unexpected to the "women in tech" zealots. I'm pretty sure everyone else expected this.

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[–] EarlPoncho 0 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago 

not surprising. if you are a woman on the internet the betas will come. most people writing code are beta as hell and can't believe a woman would interact with them

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[–] sakuramboo 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

Considering that usernames can be anything, photo's are not needed, how are they determining who are male and female?

Are they just basing it off what people put for their accounts? How are they validating the authenticity of the sex of the account owner?

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[–] thrus 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Are you implying that people on the internet would LIE? say it isn't so fibbing could lead to hurting someone's feelings and no one on GitHub wants that. /s

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[–] ForgotMyName 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It's based on this:

Specifically, we extract users’ email addresses from GHTorrent, look up that email address on the Google+ social network, then, if that user has a profile, extract gender information from these users’ profiles. Out of 4,037,953 GitHub user profiles with email addresses, we were able to identify 1,426,121 (35.3%) of them as men or women through their public Google+ profiles. We are the first to use this technique, to our knowledge.

Though I think it's fair to say that its accuracy is still debatable. They've also now got a strong sample bias toward people that clearly don't care about their anonymity online. Also, even though they determined that the user was female, that provides no proof that users reviewing their PRs have any idea that they're female/male.

I have no idea why you would use your real name/picture/email on GitHub. Use some random screen name and some random avatar (that's what I do). No one on there should care about whether I'm a guy, a girl, or a really smart dog. Code is code. Get good or gtfo, no one cares about your gender.

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[–] onegin 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

Can the world just stop paying attention to social sciences? It is impossible to conduct a meaningful study, and every report on one ends up reading as a biased editorial that ends up cherry-picking the results by pointing out potential flaws only in aspects of the study which go against their desired narrative.

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[–] guy231 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Lol, article manages to conclude no-bias, despite the results, by honing in on a subset of a subset of the data that might have suggested no-bias if they had been statistically significant. The article's bias is shown when they try to assert a predetermined conclusion using the sharpshooter fallacy, and still fails.

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[–] ForgotMyName ago 

They choose a subset that doesn't care about their anonymity, assume they're being honest about their gender (and that the profile is even real, lol), take that set, then somehow sample it to find "male"/"female" usernames? I don't see any mention of instances where their github name's gender is the opposite of their G+ gender (which people do all the time). The whole thing is a giant mess.

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[–] samwisekoi 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

But if you read the entire article, the author concludes that this is due to bias AGAINST women.

It takes some pretty fabulous wordsmithing and use of data to accomplish this feat but:

  • More women hit 100% code acceptance than men.
  • More women's code is accepted than men's.
  • More women's code addresses new features than men's.
  • More women - who are known to a team - have their code accepted than known men.

All overwhelmingly good, right? However...

  • Less women's code is accepted than men's when the women is unknown to the team AND publicly identifies as a woman.

All positive, with that one exception, so... misogyny!

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[–] zbou 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Tits or gtfo is dead

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