42 ms·
it looks like the criteria for determining gender is to pull it from a google+ profile that shares an email address with the github account, and is not using an
by notatoad 11y ago
it looks like the criteria for determining gender is to pull it from a google+ profile that shares an email address with the github account, and is not using any information from the github profile.
It seems likely to me that the bias here is gmail users versus non-gmail (corporate domain?) users.
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoHmm..., this could very well modify the results. Do they present the numbers when they limit it to only people with google+ accounts or to only people using @gmail as their email address?
- astine 11y agoThat's incorrect. The study identified the gender of the Github users twice. They got their 'canonical' gender for users using your method (and removed from their sample users who could not be identified with this method,) but later to figure out whether a user's gender was identifiable, they used the Github user's own profile. Non-Google+ users were not analyzed at all. That could possibly still influence the results, but not the way you are suggesting.