Female Coders Better Than Men, Latest Research

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The results came as a surprise to the student researchers who had expected their research to confirm that gender bias in software development was overwhelmingly prejudiced against code written by women. While the study paper has yet to be peer reviewed, the results are still intriguing.
The authors examined “pull requests” on GitHub, one of the largest and most well-known open source software development communities in the world. They looked specifically at the behaviour of coders. The researchers studied how women programmers are treated on GitHub, using a variety of different methods.The researchers found that despite 92% of software developers being men, the small number of female coders were proportionally more likely to have their work approved and viewed favourably on GitHub, as long as they didn’t actually identify themselves as women.

[h=4]The study’s authors wrote:[/h]

“Our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s…However, when a woman’s gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often.Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.”​

Female Coders Better Than Men, Latest Research Shows | FileHippo News
https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/
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[Tech Reaper]

if there are 20 male coders who code better among a group of 100 male coders and there are 10 female coders who code better among 50 female coders doesn't mean that females code better

 

[fayaz99]

hahaha lol... Dil bahlaany k liye yeh khayal acha ha Gaalib.. Jelousii... pufff :hang:

if there are 20 male coders who code better among a group of 100 male coders and there are 10 female coders who code better among 50 female coders doesn't mean that females code better

 

[Tech Reaper]

hahaha lol... Dil bahlaany k liye yeh khayal acha ha Gaalib.. Jelousii... pufff :hang:

I actually encourage females to go for Computer Science graduation than Business Administration. But in my 4 years of experience, I mostly saw females in my field as Software Quality Assurance Engineers or Relations Managers etc.

 

[fayaz99]

:giveup::giveup::giveup: Ok great

I actually encourage females to go for Computer Science graduation than Business Administration. But in my 4 years of experience, I mostly saw females in my field as Software Quality Assurance Engineers or Relations Managers etc.

 

[EternalBlizzard]

Reports like this are always misleading unless you go deep and study the research and all the methods they used. I dunno much stats but i checked the pdf they provided.

@Tech Reaper is right here. Check the sample size. 8000 for women and 150,000 for men? WTF. They compared the pull status of every women compared to every man so its 8000 compared to 150,000. That big sample size for men is sure to have outliers skewing the acceptance rate down. They are claiming the 4% higher merge rate for women on based on this large difference in sample size. Isn't this biased?

 

[V3N0M]

Females generally takes such fields more seriously & are more focused in it which they are rarely seen working as a professional . What I mean a Male programmer doesn't feel as much excited compared to a Female programmer because a female one sees herself as a standout unique professional unique among the other females .

& I've seen this . I know 1-2 young Arab female Game Programmers in Saudia Arabia who are far more talented than some Male Developers of the same age .

 

[Benighted]

To me, proportions don't matter in this case. The fact that any WOMAN can actually do good technical work is unbelievable. I thought that gender was genetically knuckleheaded.

 

[nafu]

Quote from My Boss

"Female Cannot become a good coder and so the developer"

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[Shary Bhallu TC]

The same conclusion was found for female opera conductors as well! If females performed for an audience beyond curtains, their opera was found to be better than males who also performed beyond curtains in separate tests.

 

[Benighted]

The same conclusion was found for female opera conductors as well! If females performed for an audience beyond curtains, their opera was found to be better than males who also performed beyond curtains in separate tests.

You're a feminist propagandist! How much are they paying you?

Men MasterRace 4eva

 

[ahmad94]

there is research men visualize better and have better concepts than women.

eat eggs > good for health
dont eat eggs > you will get a heart attack
eat eggs > necessary for good heart

and so on....

 

[OldMan]

You're a feminist propagandist! How much are they paying you?

Men MasterRace 4eva

Lettuce turn the question towards you by asking how much are you getting paid, you mysogynist advocate?!

Also, I never actually realized there was a bias. The experiment itself is kinda biased the way it was conducted but... eehhh, coding is coding. Let there be anonymity among all them scripters.