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Those who don't use emojis on GitHub are 3x more likely to drop out remote work

• giuliomagnifico 5y ago
  > They found that workers who regularly use emoji to express emotion — positive or negative — in their work may be with better emotional health and are naturally less likely to drop off the platform one year later. The researchers also found another interesting correlation between emoji and work. “Those who don't use emojis are three times more likely to drop out of remote work,” Mei says. The team found that using their machine learning model, they could predict dropouts with 75% accuracy
• PragmaticPulp 5y ago
  Unless I’m mistaken, they used public GitHub activity for their study and found that GitHub users who were active over longer periods of time were more likely to use emojis. This study feels like a big mess of confusing correlation with causation and trying to apply it to a different conclusion. Of course GitHub users who are more active on the platform are more likely to eventually post something with emojis. This study on public GitHub usage shouldn’t be used to draw conclusions about “remote work”.
  • giuliomagnifico 5y ago
    And consider also the 25% of possible error. Anyway I’m not that sure that this study is totally wrong, maybe who (me, sometimes) uses less emotion could be more stressed or nervous and leave earlier the remote work and platform.