StackOverflow to becoming more welcoming. 👏
For me (cis het dude with monster-sized Asian tech privilege), learning to StackOverflow properly was certainly a learning experience, and I have the closed questions to prove it. I've also gotten enough useful feedback through it (and other StackExchanges, like GIS and statistics) that I try to give back by "mentoring" & showing how to improve the question.
Downvoting unhelpful comments is a great start. I see that too much.
Now I am taking these Implicit Association Test (IAT, a bias test):
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/index.jsp
'Your data suggest a slight automatic association for Male with Science and Female with Liberal Arts.' 😢 it was a *lot* easier for me to hit the right key for
- "male OR science"/"female OR liberal arts" than
- "male OR liberal arts"/"female OR science".
I personally live by Vera Rubin's principles and this is something to think about.
@22 I was intrigued so I tried to do the test but it made my browser crash on the very final submit. When I restarted it said that my session had timed out. 😭
@wim_v12e but see Greg’s discovery and our discussion at https://mstdn.io/@taoeffect/99932063183837447
In a nutshell, we hypothesize that individual N=1 personal results might be very noisy (which does not subvert the population-level finding, that bias is endemic).
@22 That said, my main problem with the test was that I kept on putting Geology under Arts :/