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Well to me, the color of your skin/eyes/hair shouldn't be matter in any context, let alone programming... And these graphs convince people that it somehow is i

• zomglings 6y ago
  I agree with you that these things shouldn't matter. Unfortunately, we live in a world where they do matter. Measurements like this are necessary if we want to make them matter less.
  • gitgud 6y ago
    > "Measurements like this are necessary if we want to make them matter less." How does measuring skin color help make skin color matter less? To me it emphasises the importance of skin color, when it should be ignored
  • Izkata 6y ago
    This measured race, it did not measure discrimination even by correlation let alone causation. It is not useful as any sort of evidence of discrimination. The closest thing that can be said is that StackOverflow is biased towards western English speakers, which correlates well with white/European.
    • zomglings 6y ago
      Having the measurement allows us to relate it to other measurements that others have made. We may not be able to draw conclusions from the Stack Overflow measurement, but we can use it to contextualize information that we are presented with in the future.