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> systemic biases against women in github pull requests Did you read your link? > The hypothesis is not only false, but it is in the opposite direction than
by janeroe 8y ago
> systemic biases against women in github pull requests
Did you read your link?
> The hypothesis is not only false, but it is in the opposite direction than expected; women tend to have their pull requests accepted at a higher rate than men! This difference is statistically significant
- detaro 8y ago... unless they can be easily identified as women from their profile, at which point their acceptance rate drops.
- tziki 8y agoThe acceptance rate of both men and women dropped if they were identifiable as men or women. The study doesn't make any attempts to explain this.
- detaro 8y agoYes, and the one of women drops below the one of men, and that's clearly what the initial reference to the paper was talking about.
- tziki 8y agoBut only in the case of 'outsiders'. In the case of 'insiders' the acceptance rate of men drops more than that of women when their gender is known (no p-value provided so hard to tell if statistically significant).
- realSlavojTrump 8y agoA person trying to use github as a hiring signal is going to be an outsider at some point.
- realSlavojTrump 8y agoDid you read the abstract?