Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

Jon Fairbairn wrote:

Another (provocative) observation is that most of the women programmers I've known were good at it and thought they might not be, but most of the men claimed to be good at it but were not.

I've observed this too, but it's a bit droll. Let: p = proportion of people who think they're good but aren't q = proportion who think they're not good but are M = number of men in CS W = number of women in CS Given that M >> W, we'll naturally find that p*M > q*W if p and q are even remotely comparable, regardless of whether p and q are independent of gender or not. -- Live well, ~wren