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Our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman’s gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

  • @FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi
    74•7 months ago

    They didn’t use very comprehensive research methods. Also they only used Github.

    First, from the GHTorrent data set, we extract the email addresses of GitHub users. Second, for each email address, we use the search engine in the Google+ social network to search for users with that email address. Third, we parse the returned users’ ‘About’ page to scrape their gender.

    a bias against men exists, that is, a form of reverse discrimination.

    How is it reverse discrimination. It’s still plain old discrimination. I’m starting to smell a biased research here. Or at least the researchers have a bias.

    • macniel
      31•7 months ago

      Clearly discrimination is only against woman thus reverse discrimination is against man. /s

    • metaStatic
      23•7 months ago

      any bias that doesn’t confirm my bias is reverse bias

      see also: reverse racism

    • @InternetPerson
      9•7 months ago

      Thanks for pointing it out. There is clearly room for a lot of error.