Study: Women are better coders

[engine]

Does gender really make a difference in coding? According to this study, it may do.

Computer code written by women has a higher approval rating than that written by men - but only if their gender is not identifiable, new research suggests. Study: Women are better coders [bbc.co.uk]

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

[anneconq]

I don't think so..

LOL, I hate coding... :P

[tangor]

The news here is that the percentile margin is that narrow, yet touted as the "great divide", made more so by gender politics.

[blend27]

......The researchers, from the computer science departments at...., looked at around four million people who logged on to Github on a single day -1 April 2015.

Can we analyze everything that was posted on WebmasterWorld on 1 April 2015?

[LifeinAsia]

Can we analyze everything that was posted on WebmasterWorld on 1 April 2015?

Of course! Because April Fool's Day is very representative of what goes on during the rest of the year. :)

[blend27]

Wasn't me! I was getting ready for the 21st :)