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Maybe, when you reveal things about yourself, people are more likely to find things they dislike about you. Having a recognizable gender on github would often
by civilian 11y ago
Maybe, when you reveal things about yourself, people are more likely to find things they dislike about you. Having a recognizable gender on github would often include things like: a picture (your face is ugly!), your name (your ethnicity sucks!), your country (your country sucks!), your place of work (your company sucks!) and maybe your side project blog (your side projects are stupid!).
- gregdoesit 11y agoThat is a possible explanation. Naively I would have thought the opposite - the more you know about someone, the more likely you accept their PR. But this is a statistically wide enough gap for both cases, and also a statistically more significant drop in acceptance of women's PRs.
- noddingham 11y agoI would say "the more you know about someone like you"... To me that would correlate with other studies based on first impressions, hiring, etc., where we sometimes subconsciously seek out people like us. Similar to another comment, giving any information about you allows me to put you in a box I have created, whether positive or negative.
- V-2 11y agoOr maybe more experienced/open-source involved programmers have a stronger proclivity for choosing abstract user handles? There's no end to this guessing game, all they revealed was some correlation (and not a very strong one at that), and this by itself means next to nothing. Obligatory: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations