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I haven't read the article, but from your comment it doesn't seem dnautics misunderstood anything. > The women are responding to an essay about why women don't
by jolmg 8y ago
I haven't read the article, but from your comment it doesn't seem dnautics misunderstood anything.
> The women are responding to an essay about why women don't want to code. As women who do want to code they're exactly the right people to ask.
How are they "exactly the right people to ask"? They're the exact opposite! Can you see the backwards logic in your comment? If you want to know why someone's doing or not doing something, ask them, not the people who chose opposite.
- onion2k 8y agoThe original essay that the article is a response to states "Women don't want to code." This article is about how that hypothesis is wrong. It proves that it's wrong by talking to women who do want to code, thereby demonstrating the original essay is incorrect. You couldn't prove such a hypothesis wrong by talking to women who don't want to code.
- naasking 8y agoThe original essay made a statistical claim, that most women don't want to code, ie. that 80/20 is a natural gender equilibrium of those actually interested in CS. It was not universal claim that no women want to code. Therefore this article is not a rebuttal.
- DenverCoder009 8y agoThe original essay states that some women want to code, but only enough to make up 20% of the CS workforce, and that the author believes this isn't a result of discrimination. You can't disprove that hypothesis by talking to women who do want to code. The argument at hand is if the 20% representation level is a result of discrimination and bias in the field, or something else.