Women write better code, study suggests

BBC ^ | 02/12/2016

[BenLurkin]

The US researchers analysed nearly 1.4 million users of the open source program-sharing service Github.

They found that pull requests - or suggested code changes - made on the service by women were more likely to be accepted than those by men.

The paper is awaiting peer review.

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The researchers, from the computer science departments at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and North Carolina State University, looked at around four million people who logged on to Github on a single day - 1 April 2015.

Github is an enormous developer community which does not request gender information from its 12 million users.

However the team was able to identify whether roughly 1.4m were male or female - either because it was clear from the users' profiles or because their email addresses could be matched with the Google + social network.

The researchers accepted that this was a privacy risk but said they did not intend to publish the raw data.

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

[Fightin Whitey]

Women write better code

"If that's the case, sweetheart, I think we should COBOL!

[dartuser]

All that means is that women have more time than men to play in the freeware sandbox.

[luckystarmom]

I have a degree in Computer science. I know I documented my code much better than most of the guys. It made my code easier to understand or to be modified.

I also had to work with a lot of spaghetti code. I don’t know why some people refused to write subroutines.

My husband (who I worked with) was better at coding tricks. He knew things I certainly never learned in college or after being in the industry for years.

It would be interesting to go back and see how computer science is being taught nowadays.

[rlmorel]

She spoke at my college graduation!

[dfwgator]

Did you get a “Nanosecond”?

[HLPhat]

>>Bull$hit masquerading as a scientific study.

Always interesting to see how well buzzwords and BS get stacked up in a big pile that’s better for hiding behind than building anything useful upon.

The (typically Female) Archeeeetectural ladder climbers know all the latest additions to the IT Newspeak Dictionary - but are otherwise inept.

And the Peter Principled managers above them have no clue.

[Chickensoup]

Women write better code, study suggests

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In what universe...?

[kearnyirish2]

I see younger women who until 40 don’t want to “grow up”, then transition to whining that nobody will marry them and/or give them a baby before their mommy-parts are expired.

[HLPhat]

>>doOutrage(”feminism”);

oHR.manufacturePerception(oRandomOffensiveThing);

[Mr Radical]

Women write better code, study suggests

I worked in IT for 30 years so I know this is not true; not saying they are any worse than men, but definitely not better. Typical BBC BS.

PS next week expect a BBC report that conclusively suggests homosexuals/lesbians write better code.

[BenLurkin]

Trangenders. We will hear that Bruce Jenner is the best code writer of all time.

[rlmorel]

LOL, no...I wish I had...:)