Lets hear it for the girls!

[SimonMac]

Women write better code, study suggests - BBC News

Now get the kettle on love

[DimPrawn]

The team found that 78.6% of pull requests made by women were accepted compared with 74.6% of those by men.

Statistically significant?

I suspect not, but makes good PC click bait for s

HTH BIDI

[LondonManc]

IT decision makers using their sub-belt brain? Fancy that.

[SimonMac]

Statistically significant?

I suspect not, but makes good PC click bait for s

HTH BIDI

I'd like to see the workings out the other way, of all accepted code what % was male and female

[NickFitz]

Statistically significant?

I suspect not, but makes good PC click bait for s

HTH BIDI

Read the paper and find out: https://peerj.com/preprints/1733v1.pdf (PDF)

The statistical analysis seems sound enough to me, though admittedly I don't know what "the Clopper-Pearson exact method" is

[vetran]

no reason why the girls can't be better at coding.

Possibly they double check & test more than men?

[mudskipper]

I'd like to see the workings out the other way, of all accepted code what % was male and female

Given that there are far more men than women in IT, I'm guessing the % of code by women is small.

I attended a Microsoft web developers day last month - in a room of around 50 people, there were two women. On the plus side, there was no queue for the ladies

[vetran]

Given that there are far more men than women in IT, I'm guessing the % of code by women is small.

I attended a Microsoft web developers day last month - in a room of around 50 people, there were two women. On the plus side, there was no queue for the ladies

also because there are a smaller number we are more likely to attract the ladies who really want to code, not the ones that do it to look cool pay the bills like me.

[NickFitz]

Given that there are far more men than women in IT, I'm guessing the % of code by women is small.

I attended a Microsoft web developers day last month - in a room of around 50 people, there were two women. On the plus side, there was no queue for the ladies

No need to guess. You can read the paper, as I posted a link to it above. They naturally took account of such considerations when performing their analysis, as they're doing a proper study, whatever garbage the media might turn it into

[SpontaneousOrder]

So I know that people think Ada Lovelace was the first programer. It's questionable, but I don't really care either way.

But Dr Sue Black (and the lesbian feminist hair-do makes me more suspicious about this...) says that she (Lovelace) invented the idea of programming.

Anyone know if this is true? It sounds to me like the machine had to have been invented to solve arbitrary problems in the first place.

Again... I don't actually care about the fact (other than in a general knowledge pub quiz kind of way), but of the group of militant feminists who frequently tell lies about people & history, a lot of them have either red or blue short hair. This one (if she is one of them) has red hair - which makes me think even more so that she must the on the dark side. Otherwise it'd be blue.

Given the incredibly privileged lifestyle Lovelace had relative the the vast majority of both men & women, it strikes me as remarkably sexist to suggest that we owe it to her to make sure that more girls get into it. Which makes me suspicious again.

Then again, the whole idea that there aren't "enough" women in IT is normally pretty sexist in the first place. If the same logic suggests that there also aren't "enough" male nurses, because we're short and men are put off doing it, then that's ok. But I never hear these people making that argument.

They aren't intreated in getting your mind into STEM - just your vagina.