On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 20:29:12 UTC, Joe Duarte wrote:
On Monday, 9 May 2016 at 20:09:35 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
I'd also be surprised if you find an empirical gender gap
after controlling for programming language syntax, too. Even
if we grant that PL syntax is suboptimal, why would that
result in a gender bias? But, hey, you never really know until
you actually collect the data...
I forgot to mention the math. You can run the model in your
head. If group W has more career options than group M, W will
be underrepresented in career domain A. The effect will be
larger if A is less appealing than W's other options, ceteris
paribus and with some starting assumptions. (But it doesn't
need to be, if W has more options than M.)
If aspects of career domain A are *equally frustrating* for
members of groups W and M, W will still be underrepresented
(and M overrepresented) if people in W have more options. So we
don't even need it to be the case that bizarre programming
language design disproportionately annoys women for bizarre
programming language design to result in the
underrepresentation of women.
JD
(Assuming A is included in the set of options for both groups,
and is equally available to them.)
