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
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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
ck, Fabian
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> 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
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
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
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
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is not peer reviewed (though if you want my data) but I'm the only person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
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
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
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