Study: Female Coders Better Than Men, but Perceived as Worse(livescience.com)
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Study: Female Coders Better Than Men, but Perceived as Worse
https://www.livescience.com/53729-bias-against-female-coders.html
4 comments
So, Google is wrong. There is a difference between the sexes.
You don't understand.
If women are better coders than men, then there are differences between the sexes. If men are more interested in coding than women, regardless of their relative skill, then there is no difference between sexes and you should shut up right now or we will fire you.
If women are better coders than men, then there are differences between the sexes. If men are more interested in coding than women, regardless of their relative skill, then there is no difference between sexes and you should shut up right now or we will fire you.
I lost confident that this would be good work after reading the fourth sentence, though:
"Research suggests that, indeed, gender bias pervades open source. The most obvious illustration is the underrepresentation of women in open source; in a 2013 survey of the more than 2000 open source developers who indicated a gender, only 11.2% were women"
This is a textbook non-sequitur. It is trivial to show that a gender imbalance in a group or field, even an extreme one, is not proof of gender bias in that group of field; it's not even good evidence.
To be perfectly honest, after reading more of this "study," it's pathetic that this made it through peer review. Shame on this poor child's advisors.
As I suspected, PeerJ is an open-access, pay-to-play journal. I have to ask what kind of "peer-review" is involved. A science blog should have better standards than this.