[janeroe]

> systemic biases against women in github pull requests

Did you read your link?

> The hypothesis is not only false, but it is in the opposite direction than expected; women tend to have their pull requests accepted at a higher rate than men! This difference is statistically significant

[detaro]

... unless they can be easily identified as women from their profile, at which point their acceptance rate drops.

[tziki]

The acceptance rate of both men and women dropped if they were identifiable as men or women. The study doesn't make any attempts to explain this.

[detaro]

Yes, and the one of women drops below the one of men, and that's clearly what the initial reference to the paper was talking about.

[tziki]

But only in the case of 'outsiders'. In the case of 'insiders' the acceptance rate of men drops more than that of women when their gender is known (no p-value provided so hard to tell if statistically significant).

[realSlavojTrump]

A person trying to use github as a hiring signal is going to be an outsider at some point.

[realSlavojTrump]

Did you read the abstract?