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Data analysis of GitHub contributions reveals unexpected gender bias
- dudul 11y ago" First of all, they wondered whether they were seeing the outcome of "survivorship bias," [...] But that wasn't what they found" And later "One explanation is survivorship bias" Can you pick one and stick to it? Also, the confusion between "count of PRs merged on GitHub" and "competent in software" is not even obvious.
- valdiorn 11y agonot peer reviewed; there's a big red warning at the top of the page, as well as on every page of the paper.
- dang 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074587