IMO that&#x27;s a knee-jerk reaction to which you shouldn&#x27;t succumb. The study isn&#x27;t saying that &quot;one gender is better at programming&quot;; it&#x27;s saying there&#x27;s weak evidence that GitHub users <i>of one gender</i> might be slightly more competent.<p>There are many reasons that might be true without any gender being better programmers in general.