The source research paper is pretty interesting but the article is not well written and conflates reputable sources with personal opinions while not shying from

The source research paper is pretty interesting but the article is not well written and conflates reputable sources with personal opinions while not shying from making big conclusive statements. Several problems; > The researchers also examined the importance of personality factors. They found that biases may be involved in the acceptance or rejection of open source work. That’s true despite the apparent advantage of open source whereby you can contribute with a level of anonymity; your persona shows in your code and comments. Someone reviews and comments on your work based on what they see in front of them, and not how they know you as a person. There is absolutely no mention of bias in the paper nor the study design can really account for this. > “While the research phrases it academically as ‘personality,’ what they mean is someone’s ability to interact with others: the application of social interaction skills as well as technical skills.” This is false for big-five personality traits. The most explicitly social trait is extraoversion-intraversion scale. Rest of the traits e.g neuroticism or conscientiousness has aspects that has nothing to do with social interactions but interacting with self or the environment (e.g orderliness). > He considers himself to be open and conscientious ... Foster describes herself as “primarily conscientious with a bit of agreeableness,” That is not how big-five works. The factor analysis that result in traits are only statistically significant when the big-five inventory is taken (and only once). Self-ascribing these traits have no value in the context of big-five. > “Developers are very much like artists, in that they can be very sensitive to criticism and place a very high value not only on their work, but on the acceptance of both their work and who they are.” Contradictingly, study finds high neuroticism translate into higher acceptance of pull requests.