Weird, because I was a sophomore in high school in the 1990s too and i loved Star Trek and I'm a girl and oh my god http://qz.com/823162/a-new-study-shows-how-star-trek-jokes-and-geek-culture-make-women-feel-unwelcome-in-computer-science/?utm_source=Quartz+Morning+Brief&utm_campaign=07220ea70b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ff2527dbb-07220ea70b-57457129 …
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I wish we could talk face-to-face about this, because there's some nuance here I can't communicate w Twitter.
i think this woman made basic assumptions in her study design that were deeply flawed.
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I've heard the same results from other studies at sci conf. It's probably not any one of those things individually...
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girls DO feel unwelcome in CS and it has nothing to do with 'only boys like star trek'
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but more the collection of them, with some other things added on.
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example: a surprising thing I've heard come up at CS confs is that hackathons are almost certainly terrible at attracting women.
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