> The paper, still awaiting peer review and thus subject to all the criticism dudes will no doubt hurl at it.
You mean like the fact they determined gender algorithmically and that the difference was 4% or that when comparing a very large group with a very small group you have to looked at selection bias.
Not saying women aren't better than coders (though I'd struggle to think of a reason why both genders aren't equal on this one) but this study is very poorly done.
It's not even about quality of code - it's just who gets more pull requests accepted. Which may have some correlation with "quality of code" but it's -not- "women are better coders".
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[ 0.15 ms ] story [ 21.9 ms ] threadYou mean like the fact they determined gender algorithmically and that the difference was 4% or that when comparing a very large group with a very small group you have to looked at selection bias.
Not saying women aren't better than coders (though I'd struggle to think of a reason why both genders aren't equal on this one) but this study is very poorly done.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11093434