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The conversation here around the headline is pretty disappointing for HN. It's a silly premise but the attempt at answering this question by scraping and corre
by kjeetgill 6y ago
The conversation here around the headline is pretty disappointing for HN.
It's a silly premise but the attempt at answering this question by scraping and correlating github activity and profiles is pretty great fun and hackery.
The conclusion, for those skimming the comments:
> That provides a p-value of 0.2371. We now have to conclude that the higher average we got isn’t statistically significant, since our p-value of 23.7% doesn’t meet the traditional 5% cutoff. Therefore, we must once again acquiesce to Betteridge’s law, and adopt our null hypothesis, that having an anime profile picture does not necessarily correlate with your abilities as a programmer.