Come up with some questions you'd like to answer with the data

[CaptainEmerson]

• [x] Take a look at the existing paper
• [x] Brainstorm some questions, and write them here

[CaptainEmerson]

FYI, other repo with some existing issues that you might be able to tackle is here: https://github.com/DeveloperLiberationFront/GenderBiasInPushRequests

You have access to it.

[clarrain]

I was looking at Issue #31 in the GenderBiasInPushRequests repository (Get 100 misspelled files) and thinking about how we talked about the way in which women/men present their pull requests: maybe women make fewer spelling errors than men do in their pull requests? Presentation could affect whether or not you accept a request (credibility).

[clarrain]

Issue #44 - Survivor Bias (I wasn't sure if I should post this information here or on the issue itself) I used the FLOSS Survey to look at the level of education of males and females, and 81.42% of the women surveyed have Bachelors, Masters, and/or PhDs, as opposed to 76.12% of the men. Not a huge difference, but the numbers below say a little more. It's interesting that considerably more women surveyed have Masters or PhDs than males (42.04% for females, 36.54% for males). I'll try to find another open source survey resource so I'm not depending on just FLOSS for all of these things.

Education Level	Count Male	Percent Male	Count Female	Percent Female
Elementary	21	1.18%	2	0.88%
High School	230	12.95%	25	11.06%
A-Level	87	4.90%	6	2.65%
Apprenticeship	58	3.27%	6	3.54%
Bachelors	703	39.58%	89	39.38%
Masters	512	28.83%	72	31.86%
PhD	137	7.71%	23	10.18%
No answer/Not completed	28	1.57%	1	0.44%

[CaptainEmerson]

This suggests that open source developers who are females are not dropping out of education at a rate any faster than, but does it speak to whether they're dropping out of open source at a higher rate?