Our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman’s gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

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      Thank you. Unfortunately, your link doesn’t work either - it just leads to the creative commons information). Maybe it’s an issue with Firefox Mobile and Adblockers. I’ll check it out later on a PC.

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        Looking at their comment history they seem to allways include that link to the CC license page in some attempt to prevent the comments from being used with AI.

        I have no idea of if that is actually a thing or just a fad, but that was the link.

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          Thanks for pointing that out.

          Seems like a wild idea as… a) it poisons the data not only for AI but also real users like me (I swear I’m not a bot :D). b) if this approach is used more widely, AIs will learn very fast to identify and ignore such non-sense links and probably much faster than real humans.

          It sounds like a similar concept as captchas with annoy real people, yet fail to block out bots.

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        Their link wasn’t to the paper but to the license to poison possible AIs training their models on our posts. Idk if that actually is of any use though