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This should be a yellow card. First you dump a link to some research paper without any effort to unpack it, and then you make accusations of a logical fallacy.
Gender does have something to do with it but only in aggregate and on an individual level it is entirely irrelevant. There's far too much variability on an individual level for statistics to be of any use. At all.
You're also completely ignoring the fact that a disproportionate majority of software developers were women in the era when "hardware" was the prestigious thing to do. When software became prominent in the 1980s the gender bias shifted dramatically in the other direction.
Gender is as irrelevant to someone's ability to code as their choice of music or favourite sport is.
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This should be a yellow card. First you dump a link to some research paper without any effort to unpack it, and then you make accusations of a logical fallacy.
Gender does have something to do with it but only in aggregate and on an individual level it is entirely irrelevant. There's far too much variability on an individual level for statistics to be of any use. At all.
You're also completely ignoring the fact that a disproportionate majority of software developers were women in the era when "hardware" was the prestigious thing to do. When software became prominent in the 1980s the gender bias shifted dramatically in the other direction.
Gender is as irrelevant to someone's ability to code as their choice of music or favourite sport is.