Science has confirmed: the best coders - women

Checkmate, sexist. Scientists (not even the British) have shown that women are the best programmers. Girls, it's time to reveal their potential in full force and learn programming.

"Women can not be that women are not capable of this, women do not understand anything else ..." The guys from the Polytechnic Carolina University and North Carolina State University have prepared a great gift for all women on 8 Martha. Their new research paper shows that the best programmers, according to statistics, are just representatives of the fair sex. Yes, in the men's class women were the best.

While the article expects expertise and is only available in the form of preprint. In her text considered action 4 million people who logged on GitHub per day. Of these, the researchers were able to determine the sex of 1.4 million users. But an unexpected further statistical inference: pull request (proposals for changes in the project) girls taken in 78.6% of cases. A proposal of men - only 74.6% of cases.

Of course, one could argue that this indulgence for women. But it was not there. The team tested this assumption and found that in fact such a figure is valid only for women's profiles without Floor Information (researchers had to make tweaks to determine the real user's gender, but not without this article be held). In that case, if the floor is easy to define, just 62.5% of requests are met on GitHub. But in the case of a completely gender-neutral profile (in terms of the total weight of the user), the figure was 71.8%.

This experiment led researchers to conclude:

Women have a higher rate of adoption pull request, but if they offer a weak code or manifest their sexual identity, this figure is significantly reduced. The results show that women on GitHub may be more competent, prejudice against them significantly interfere with work.

Girls throw cook - start to code. Science for you!