Re:Pull request acceptance of women versus men
by geofft on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @02:17PM
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Hm, is your hypothesis that code from women who are identifiable as women is more often disagreeable than code from women who are not identifiable as women?
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Re:Pull request acceptance of women versus men
by sheepmullet on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @02:47PM
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Yes, that seems likely.
Consider the method they used to identify gender - they based it on the email being linked to a Google+ account. This rules out most submissions made as part of corporate work.
So if corporate users submit better code than hobbyists then you would expect a drop. And you do see a significant drop across the board for gender-identifiable vs gender-indeterminate contributions.