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There has been a research on unconscious bias towards minorities. Basically given the same papers, the number of corrections and comments was significantly high
by pipiipiippi 9y ago
There has been a research on unconscious bias towards minorities. Basically given the same papers, the number of corrections and comments was significantly higher when the papers had names of minorities or something. That kind of ironically proves that it's beneficial to hire more women given the same qualifications, doesn't it? haha. People would look at women's code much more carefully and there will be fewer bugs in the end. I personally had a few cases where I just copied an approach of some guy (e.g. using a certain library that a similar application was using) but I had to change that during the code review. I mentioned this and had to change his code as well. How did he get through this rigorous code review in the first place? I don't know. Maybe people found him more trust-worthy and assumed his work was perfect. :/