Women write better code, study suggests

BBC ^ | 02/12/2016

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Didn’t stop to ask. I had code to write and a project to finish.     =;^)

[Chode]

good on you... those who can do, the rest do maintenance 8^)

[DiogenesLamp]

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.

Didn't I see a story to the effect that github is currently in the throes of a Social Justice Warrior induced meltdown?

Don't they have a craptastic politically correct female pushing her social justice warriorism at the moment?

Till I hear otherwise, i'm going to regard any politically correct stuff coming from that direction as just propaganda.

[DiogenesLamp]

But it’s always awesome to learn that women are better than men.

I may be mistaken about this, but I bet men make up the vast majority of code writers. Certainly most of the ones I have known have been men.

[kearnyirish2]

They are probably just trying to tempt tech firms to hire more women - despite the fact that most have no interest in that work (or the hours involved).

I see a backlash today in younger women where they are determined to work as little as possible; they look at middle-aged women and view their lives (or lack thereof) as pathetic. While young guys might want to live in their parents’ basements, plenty of young women want to live in clubs.

[disclaimer]

...yet another very carefully framed study brought to you by the western word Feminist Union otherwise known as FU

[ClearCase_guy]

I bet men make up the vast majority of code writers

It's a curious thing ...

The media assures me that Women do this stuff better AND they will do it for substantially less money (72 cents on the dollar).

And yet the idiots who run companies like Apple, Google, Netflix and Amazon seem to have more men than women writing code.

It baffles me.[/s]

[DiogenesLamp]

If women wrote superior code for the same or less pay, they would be overwhelmingly sought out by businesses.

Facts and reality getting in the way of a social justice warrior theory? Then it is the facts which must be dispensed with!

[CodeToad]

I’ve never known a good code writer that was a woman. Not one.

[kearnyirish2]

In my experience I’ve dealt with Asian women who have the same work ethic as American men - and they are getting jobs because of it. I don’t think there is a genetic inclination to “clerical duties”, but a cultural one - many middle-aged and older women assumed their income would be secondary, and are facing a lot of financial pressure because the men’s wages have been falling.

Female clerical workers I’ve dealt with are slighted that a lawyer working in a firm for two years earns more than them while they’ve been there for a dozen; there is no weighting of skills/certificates required or education attained.

[DiogenesLamp]

The media assures me that Women do this stuff better AND they will do it for substantially less money (72 cents on the dollar).

And yet the idiots who run companies like Apple, Google, Netflix and Amazon seem to have more men than women writing code.

It baffles me.[/s]

You and I both know this story is nothing but an effort at pushing "social justice warrior" propaganda. People need to be physically spanked for promulgating this sort of crap.

[disclaimer]

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.

So, a woman would check out this code after a man wrote it...

...yet another very carefully framed study brought to you by the western word Feminist Union otherwise known as FU

And correct it...

...yet another very carefully framed study brought to you by the western world Feminist Union otherwise known as FU

...and the code is likely to be accepted. Nothing against women, but I'm tired of the propaganda.

[dfwgator]

I’ve never known a good code writer that was a woman. Not one.

There's always exceptions.

[Kenton]

Women write better code, study suggests

Yeah, it may be hard wired into them. Which explains why we can't understand them. They don't know how to Chick'splain what they mean in normal English, they always seem to tiptoe around the subject, hoping we figure it out.

I been married 46 years, I'm still working on it, but there's no Rosetta Stone for this stuff.

[MayflowerMadam]

That’s funny! Probably true, even.

Speaking of clerical duties, my sister and BIL used to play Pictionary with another couple, men vs women. The women always won. They’d draw some obscure image which was nothing remotely like the mystery word, but in the corner they’d sneak in the actual word in shorthand. A code only they could understand.

[aquila48]

“These stats mean nothing.”

You’re naive if you think that. They want to indoctrinate you to their preferred version of “reality”. The start of a new meme.

The media have become “meme pimps”. The BBC and the NYT are the head pimps. This “news” will be repeated a thousand times.

[CodeToad]

You don’t know that she wrote good code, only that she worked in coding.

[B212]

day after day, I read that women are much better at everything.....are men permitted in this universe? or should we bail-out and head back to Mars!!

[Covenantor]

That Pictionary thing must be a national female conspiracy as the same thing happened when my ex and I visited her sister and husband. MM and FF teams, my ex would draw a square and her sister immediately responded with “Global Warming”, the correct answer.

Huh?

We guys sat slack jawed. Of course, the example is a bit exaggerated, but not much. We couldn’t figure out how they did it and they laughingly dismissed the idea of collusion. Still don’t know how they did it.

[B212]

“plenty of young women want to live in clubs.”

It is amazing the number of 50s women, who have fetish of collecting men....