I&#x27;m saying this in a comment that explains this point. The world is bigger than this one study.<p>I&#x27;m explaining how hostility to women can result in a higher acceptance rate of their pull requests. As you could have seen from the numbers in this study, women do far, far fewer pull requests than men. Why? Perhaps, because only the best women remain, and they only submit their best pull requests. That drives the average for women up, while driving the total number down.<p>And I don&#x27;t think the acceptance rate of pull requests is a likely vector of discrimination anyway; they&#x27;re fairly anonymous and focus on the code. But the hostility absolutely does exist in other areas: small talk, jokes, hiring practices, sexual harassment, etc.