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by mijoharas 3468 days ago
The paper states that the acceptance rates are only higher when they are not identifiable as women

> However, women's acceptance rates are higher only when they are not identifiable as women

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Thanks, this is the relevant part of the paper for that claim:

> For outsiders, we see evidence for gender bias: women’s acceptance rates drop by 10.2% when their gender is identifiable, compared to when it is not (2(df= 1;n= 18;540) =131;p < :001). There is a smaller 5.7% drop for men (2(df= 1;n= 659;560) = 103;p <:001). Women have a higher acceptance rate of pull requests overall (as we reported earlier),but when they are outsiders and their gender is identifiable, they have a lower acceptance rate than men

Accepting arguendo that this is clear evidence of a gender bias, its effects are not as clearly pronounced as the tweet tries to imply they are.

Sure, except the author of the tweets also states that they believe this project in particular is a particularly bad outlier, with projects varying: https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/811510038166695937