[Tichy]

I think you have to take into account that people value their personal experiences. We all have encountered women in our lives and sometimes in Tech. Since I never attempted to rape a tech woman, or diminished their achievements, I tend to find the typical portrait of male tech environments insulting. From my personal experience they are not true, and you have to provide a lot of arguments to override people's personal experiences.

[rayiner]

Discussions of gender equality: the only subject on Hacker News or Reddit where someone will, with a straight face, try to refute an empirical study with anecdotal evidence.

[Tichy]

I think you exaggerate. Most of these discussions are not about empirical studies but about opinion pieces.

[rayiner]

You were replying to an article involving an empirical study.

[Tichy]

I did not say the study is false or anything. I just tried to explain the sentiment of people accused of fostering a sexist industry.

For what it's worth (although this is tangential), I think the study is interesting but I can still think of a lot of questions to ask. And it wasn't about IT, the experiment was done with lab jobs.