There are several issues with this study, some of which are pointed out here in a useful summary: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-excited-about-that-github-study/ . Especially making the gender responsible for the difference in contrast to other attributes of the users that might be just linked to the gender (maybe the women that join GitHub are just the very best/professional women, contribute only to specific types of code, etc., etc.) , apart from some other open questions re:methods, seems questionable for me. And I also share the author’s criticism of “science journalism” and it’s propensity for reporting catchy results.
Fabian On 11.02.2016, at 23:20, Laura Hale <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: https://www.quora.com/Has-the-female-participation-on-Quora-changed-in-the-past-6-months-if-so-how/answer/Laura-Hale is not peer reviewed (though if you want my data) but I'm the only person inside the community looking at gender issue on Quora. In the past six months, there has been a noticable shift in female participation type on Quora, to the point where it surpassed that of men. It isn't necessarily translating towards higher female user rates but it is on the participation side. Sincerely, Laura Hale On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thought I'd pass this along. Haven't read the whole article yet, but it sounds fascinating. TL;DR: Looks like contributions by women are accepted more often than those by men, but only if the project leader doesn't know the pull request is coming from a woman. Excellent summary: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/data-analysis-of-github-contributions-reveals-unexpected-gender-bias/ Preprint: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733v1/ Note: this work has not yet been peer-reviewed. J -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF)<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- twitter: purplepopple _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l Gruß, Fabian -- Fabian Flöck Research Associate Computational Social Science department @GESIS Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Cologne, Germany Tel: + 49 (0) 221-47694-208 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.gesis.org www.facebook.com/gesis.org
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