how often do people read hn? that is how often women do.
A poorly posed question. I assume the OP meant to ask how much of HN readers are women.
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Re: Ask HN: How often women read HN? Participate?
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quick example from [1]: "After sifting through near to three million pull requests submitted on GitHub, they found – against their expectations – that code written by women was approved at a slightly higher rate than that composed by men, 78.6 percent to 74.6 percent, respectively. That’s roughly an extra 120,000 pieces of code. "Nevertheless, there was a depressing caveat: this rule only applied if their gender was…
How much did the male approval rate change from unknown-male to known-male? You can't just say that women's contributions fell and then not show the comparable male change.
From the study[1]:
"For outsiders, we see evidence for gender bias: women’s acceptance rates are 71.8% when they use gender neutral profiles, but drop to 62.5% when their gender is identifiable. There is a similar drop for men, but the effect is not as strong."
Yours is a good point, however, that seems to have been missed in the reporting on this study. The men's acceptance rates did also drop (significantly even) when their gender was revealed. So it appears that men might also benefit from having a gender-neutral identity.
Re: Ask HN: How often women read HN? Participate?
#23I read it every day and comment once in a while.
I also post links sometimes, not often.
For Russians - m Russian - it's clear from my name that I'm a girl. not sure about non Russians.
Re: Ask HN: How often women read HN? Participate?
#24I expect that not very many women will out themselves in response to your question, considering how much negative attention such an outing often results in.
Oh fantastic. Now admitting to being a woman is considered to be an outing.
Re: Ask HN: How often women read HN? Participate?
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are you talking about? Can you cite an example?
Quick example from [1]: "After sifting through near to three million pull requests submitted on GitHub, they found – against their expectations – that code written by women was approved at a slightly higher rate than that composed by men, 78.6 percent to 74.6 percent, respectively. That’s roughly an extra 120,000 pieces of code. "Nevertheless, there was a depressing caveat: this rule only applied if their gender was…
One trick I find helpful is reversing the results of a study and seeing if I still believe it.
This article leaves one with the impression that women are 'better' at coding. So, using the above trick, do i believe men are 'better' at coding than women? Nope. Nor do I believe the opposite. So on that basis alone one should be very skeptical about this link.
I was referring specifically to this site. Outside of reddit and maybe youtube comments I don't remember seeing any offensive comments lately. Maybe it's time to move to some better sites!
No, I'm not trolling you.
Re: Ask HN: How often women read HN? Participate?
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are you talking about? Can you cite an example?
Quick example from [1]: "After sifting through near to three million pull requests submitted on GitHub, they found – against their expectations – that code written by women was approved at a slightly higher rate than that composed by men, 78.6 percent to 74.6 percent, respectively. That’s roughly an extra 120,000 pieces of code. "Nevertheless, there was a depressing caveat: this rule only applied if their gender was…
Wait, people are still flogging politiczed misinterpretations of this study? IIRC, this study found that under the majority of circumstances women are treated better than men on GitHub; you have to hunt around for an obscure corner of it to find anything that doesn't support that. So of course that's what the media did, and it looks like you fell for it.
Also, the request was for examples of sexual harassment on HN, and I can't help but notice that you didn't provide any and instead changed the subject.
Re: Ask HN: How often women read HN? Participate?
#27Who in the actual fuck cares if it is a man or woman reading and participating?