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The results seem reasonable to me: with 90-95% of coders being male, that means that this group has probably a wide distribution curve in terms of skills. The g
by gpresot 11y ago
The results seem reasonable to me: with 90-95% of coders being male, that means that this group has probably a wide distribution curve in terms of skills. The group of female coders probably has a narrower curve and likely skewed towards "good" (i.e. gifted and truly passionate about coding).
- gpresot 11y agoObviously my comment only refers to the part of the article talking about the better grading of female coders, not the part about the bias.
- Mithaldu 11y agoThat is exactly what their study concludes: "One explanation is survivorship bias: [...] Another explanation is self-selection bias: [...] Yet another explanation is that women are held to higher performance standards than men [...]" Or in other words: Women who stay long enough to end up submitting PRs submit higher quality code, while the much bigger population of men, under much less social pressure, has a more well-distributed quality curve; and even women who get this far are biased against if their gender is known.