"Studies show" is carrying a lot of water. I don't have access to the study that is linked, but almost all of these studies about sexism in tech end up not bein

"Studies show" is carrying a lot of water. I don't have access to the study that is linked, but almost all of these studies about sexism in tech end up not being true. An excellent example was Gender Bias In Open Source: Pull Request Acceptance Of Women Vs. Men.[1] This study claimed to find evidence of sexism. If you looked at the data, it was clear that there wasn't any.[2] Still, it was the basis for articles by Vice.com[3], The Guardian[4], Business Insider[5], and the BBC[6]. None of these news organizations issued retractions. The bias in both academia and news organizations is such that they simply cannot be trusted to be accurate on this topic. The bias in bay area tech companies is just as bad. If you express the slightest doubt about sexism being rampant in tech, you will be ostracized. If you speak up in protest when all the women in the office go to a free screening of Wonder Woman during work hours, while all the men have to stay and work, you will become persona non grata. These sorts of things have happened to me and others I know. It's infuriating. Even if sexism and racism are as bad as people like Coraline Ada claim, these "solutions" are making the problem worse. Discriminating on the basis of race and sex only serves to balkanize us and polarize opinions. 1. https://peerj.com/preprints/1733v1.pdf https://peerj.com/preprints/1733v1.pdf 2. Scott Alexander explains the whole saga: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-excited-about-that-github-study/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-exc... 3. https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/9aep3y/women-are-better-at-coding-than-men https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/9aep3y/women-are-bett... 4. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/women-considered-better-coders-hide-gender-github https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/women-con... 5. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/more-evidence-of-sexism-on-github-2016-2 https://www.businessinsider.com.au/more-evidence-of-sexism-o... 6. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35559439 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35559439