along with this:<p>&gt; <i>6. Women have lower acceptance rates as outsiders when they are identifiable as women.</i><p>They should have added this:<p>7. <i>Men have lower acceptance rates as outsiders when they are identifiable as men.</i><p>Seeing those two together - equally justified by the text - suggests it might just be a small bias (~10%) against &quot;outsiders&quot; who use their real name in favor of &quot;outsiders&quot; who use hacker aliases...regardless of gender.