I don't think the drop is the important bit - men's AR also drops when gender identifiable.
In fact, they both drop when identified to a point which (as far as I can tell from the graph; figures aren't given) they are within each other's confidence interval.
So actually, we're more critical of everyone when their gender is disclosed; equally so.
Which I find surprising. I'd have thought if anything, we'd be more trusting and supportive of the person disclosing a picture, name, etc. (the criteria used for gender identification).
I'd have thought if anything, we'd be more trusting and supportive of the person disclosing a picture, name, etc. (the criteria used for gender identification).
Why though? My experience is that aside from everyone's monkeysphere, people generally tend to hate other people.
Social media where you interact with a higher than Dunbar number of people (ie Not Facebook) is often just a nasty status game.
Humanizing a pull request can bring all sorts of baggage from that into the evaluation of a contained block of ideas.
I'm personally somewhat biased (probably unfairly) against people that use a full name and photo rather than a handle, if I don't know them. I just have this gut feeling that their pull request is probably "I've rewritten this cli tool in node.js!" or something. It's a purely tribal thing, but that may explain it to some extent (then again, I feel like github is the home of people like that, so it should work as an in-group marker? Dunno)
In fact, they both drop when identified to a point which (as far as I can tell from the graph; figures aren't given) they are within each other's confidence interval.
So actually, we're more critical of everyone when their gender is disclosed; equally so.
Which I find surprising. I'd have thought if anything, we'd be more trusting and supportive of the person disclosing a picture, name, etc. (the criteria used for gender identification).