Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)

2016-02-21 Thread Peter Ansell
On 20 February 2016 at 12:44, Samuel Klein wrote: > The full paper is very much worth reading. > > Peter writes: >> One theory may be that outsiders contribute trivial fixes, which are >> virtually assured to have a 100% acceptance rate by communities that >> wish to expand. > > Did you read the p

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)

2016-02-21 Thread Kerry Raymond
From: "Kerry Raymond" < <mailto:kerry.raym...@gmail.com> kerry.raym...@gmail.com> To: "'Research into Wikimedia content and communities’" < <mailto:wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wiki-researc

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)

2016-02-21 Thread Kevin G Crowston
27;Research into Wikimedia content and communities’" mailto:wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org>> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect) So I can easily believe the average women on GitHub is of a higher standard of ability than the average male

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)

2016-02-20 Thread WereSpielChequers
ck, Fabian > Sent: Friday, 19 February 2016 9:42 PM > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what > you expect) > > There are several issues with this study, some of which are pointed out her

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)

2016-02-19 Thread Samuel Klein
The full paper is very much worth reading. Peter writes: > One theory may be that outsiders contribute trivial fixes, which are > virtually assured to have a 100% acceptance rate by communities that > wish to expand. Did you read the paper? "the changes proposed by women typically included more l

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)

2016-02-19 Thread Kerry Raymond
communities Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect) 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

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)

2016-02-19 Thread Flöck , Fabian
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 t

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)

2016-02-11 Thread Laura Hale
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 s

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)

2016-02-11 Thread Peter Ansell
One theory may be that outsiders contribute trivial fixes, which are virtually assured to have a 100% acceptance rate by communities that wish to expand. Even if the trivial fix is slightly broken the maintainer can patch it up after the merge and give the contributor a sense of achievement by acce

[Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)

2016-02-11 Thread Jonathan Morgan
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://arstec