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detaro
2931 days ago
... unless they can be easily identified as women from their profile, at which point their acceptance rate drops.
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tziki
2931 days ago
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.
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detaro
2931 days ago
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.
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tziki
2931 days ago
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).
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realSlavojTrump
2930 days ago
A person trying to use github as a hiring signal is going to be an outsider at some point.
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