Gender differences at the Facebook Hacker Cup

xNOM · 2014-10-11T04:24:53+00:00

An interesting analysis but with two weak points:

It is not revealed why only some of the participants could be identified by gender. A 35% hole in the sample rate without discussing the randomness of the sample, is not good.

Gender could be retrieved for 65% of participants on the qualification round of the 2014 Hacker Cup.

This is not even close to a normal distribution, so the use of the standard deviation to tell whether the difference in mean scores is significant is not really valid. Even it it WERE normal, the correct figure of merit would be the standard deviation of the mean or standard error. This is smaller than the standard deviation by the sample size N. A proper analysis would involve confidence intervals based on some kind of assumptions about the score distributions (points per question) or by simply doing the measurement year after year and calculating the standard deviation of the mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_interval#Definition

J_F · 2014-10-10T23:36:02+00:00

Hey you, this subreddit doesn't exist to prove that men are better in any perspective! In my opinion people should be treated equaly, it isn't a battle between genders.

Title	Gender differences at the Facebook Hacker Cup
Author	CircleT
Upvotes	1
Comments	5
Date	October 10, 2014 11:07 PM UTC (11 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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