Actually, if you look at their numbers (or the summary numbers provided by the top-voted comment), the statement &quot;women on github are more competent than men&quot; seems to be a result of selection bias rather than &quot;one sex is better than the other&quot;.<p>It appears there are more than 150k men on github but less than 10k women. But if you look at real life, men don&#x27;t out-number women 15-to-1, which seems to suggest programming on github draws in more men than women. I suggest that, whereas in addition to professional men, tons of boys will make a hobbyist account on github to leave inane comments on open-source projects, there are very few hobbyist girls that fall into this category; that is, a woman only makes an account on github if she is a professional in the industry.<p>Naturally, if you compare a group of professionals against a group of professionals + college-rockstar-ninja-guru-hackathon-&quot;yeah, but is it optimized?&quot; amateurs, the group of professionals without the baggage would be &quot;better&quot;.<p>Anyway, that&#x27;s my take on what the numbers say; maybe I&#x27;m wrong, in which case, I for one welcome our new female overlords; if they must put us all to death, may they do so with snu-snu