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Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men (www.researchgate.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

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