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Media misreports study showing women code better than men. Here’s what’s unsaid
- Claudus 11y agoI remember being drawn into the world of computers decades ago. Online your physical characteristics were irrelevant, your words and ideas were all that mattered. When I read articles like this, it makes me think that some people don't like that.
- jlg23 11y ago"[...] as much as we want to see gender equality in the workplace, this cannot come at the expense of credible reporting and nuanced debate." Amen.
- rdlecler1 11y agoIf that vice article has taught us anything, it's that Diana Tourjee is sexist. As her vice article shows, whether or not she thinks that she views men as equals, men's actions are not being judged impartially.
- noobermin 11y agoThat paper seems somewhat suspect. In their interpretation, they essentially hang their hat on the most suspect data that shows a percentage difference that just might lie in the margin. Scanning their other figures, the, so-called "reverse discrimination" that other findings suggest are well outside the error bars they plot. It doesn't further inspire my confidence that the authors are not psychologists but are computer scientists, which might explain such they make the mistake of weighing small changes so much...although that's because my impression of CS people is they don't deal with empirical data that much, which I may be wrong about. Their findings still might give evidence towards their hypothesis, but more because acceptance rates are on-par with men instead of beyond men as it was when their gender is obscured.
- valdiorn 11y agodid everyone miss the big-ass "NOT PEER REVIEWED" disclaimer on every page of that report? Like, seriously, read the damn paper people https://peerj.com/preprints/1733.pdf https://peerj.com/preprints/1733.pdf