> But we do know the net effects of sex on developing an interest in programming, namely that there is a negative correlation between being female and having sa

> But we do know the net effects of sex on developing an interest in programming, namely that there is a negative correlation between being female and having said interest. Do we? That observation doesn't appear to account for the fact that the numbers are strongly correlated with culture, nor that women's presence in CS has been declining in Western countries but increasing in others. This is kind of like saying we knew the net effects of race on personal productivity by looking at Japanese internment camps during WWII — it's a very shallow and facile view of the topic.