Archived Data analysis of GitHub contributions reveals unexpected gender bias towards women (arstechnica.com)
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Archived Data analysis of GitHub contributions reveals unexpected gender bias towards women (arstechnica.com)
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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.