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A couple of standout points from this article: * the data itself hasn't been released so no one outside of Facebook has in any way analyzed it, we're relying o
by savanaly 9y ago
A couple of standout points from this article:
* the data itself hasn't been released so no one outside of Facebook has in any way analyzed it, we're relying on their analysis and reportage of that analysis to be correct
* the rejection rate is not just higher for female engineers, it's a lot higher: 35%
* Facebook is confident that the effect is not due to gender bias (scrutinizing female workers' code more closely) but that it's due to a confounding effect of engineering rank (females tend to be lower rank, and lower ranks tend to have more rejections through some mechanism)
In other words, we definitely need more study in the area before I would be confident drawing any important conclusions. It is a fascinating step forward though.
- Crespyl 9y ago> through some mechanism It is hardly surprising or novel that junior/less experienced developers will write code that has more problems and thus gets rejected more often.
- itsdrewmiller 9y agoThe study that found the 35% controlled for seniority (at Facebook). It would be most correct to use overall experience including prior to FB, but it is probably less correct to use promotion level when promotion decisions would very likely suffer from the same biases. https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/05/02/facebooks-female-engineers-claim-gender-bias.amp.html https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017...