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Re:Six women computer scientists respond to why women don’t ... by onion2k on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:09PM (#18086508)
The original essay that the article is a response to states "Women don't want to code." This article is about how that hypothesis is wrong. It proves that it's wrong by talking to women who do want to code, thereby demonstrating the original essay is incorrect.

You couldn't prove such a hypothesis wrong by talking to women who don't want to code.

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Re:Six women computer scientists respond to why women don’t ... by DenverCoder009 on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:22PM (#18086654)
The original essay states that some women want to code, but only enough to make up 20% of the CS workforce, and that the author believes this isn't a result of discrimination. You can't disprove that hypothesis by talking to women who do want to code.

The argument at hand is if the 20% representation level is a result of discrimination and bias in the field, or something else.

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Re:Six women computer scientists respond to why women don’t ... by naasking on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:16PM (#18086593)
The original essay made a statistical claim, that most women don't want to code, ie. that 80/20 is a natural gender equilibrium of those actually interested in CS. It was not universal claim that no women want to code. Therefore this article is not a rebuttal.
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