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grimalkina

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Social & Evidence Scientist. Defender of the mismeasured. 🦄🏳️‍🌈 she/they

I do #psychology and #measurement theory and #research with #software teams on how developers thrive. My focus areas include how people form beliefs about #learning and build strategies for #resilience #productivity & #motivation. Quant Psych PhD (but with a love for qual) and VP of Getting Tech to Do Real Open Science.

Founder of the Developer Success Lab ❤️
Neighborhood Cool Science Aunt

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I finished these absolutely delicious high waisted trousers in a sustainably sourced chocolate brown herringbone fabric with a slightly oversized but tapered fit and a sewed-down pleat that creates the most pleasing line from a deep side pocket and also the pocket lining is this stunning surprise red jacquard WITH. TINY. LADYBUGS. SEWN. INTO. IT.

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"Cat they're just brown pants"

They're just brown pants to YOU!!!! To ME they are the recipient of a button I found on the floor while I was my mom's sole caregiver after surgery and stuck in my pocket, the hem that is in dialogue with my favorite pair of boots, the side seam that has little bits of my dog's fluffy white fur sewn into it because he lays on and blesses every fabric while I'm cutting it and I never notice all the fluff

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@oscarjiminy I do need to fashion show document the last few makes!!

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Due popular either demand or concern here are the ladybugs, they are happy and unharmed

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@watters lol here you go I appreciate the nonjudgment

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/112496956174028276

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Jacquard typically refers to a fabric that has a design woven into it!

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Several large studies of "microinclusions," small actions which demonstrate a commitment to shared
belonging, and a recognition of another person’s technical and social contribution, have found that experiencing
microinclusions increases anticipated role fit over and above simply socially warm gestures (Muragishi et al., 2023).

From this paper "Psychological Affordances Can Provide a Missing Explanatory Layer for Why Interventions to Improve Developer Experience Take Hold or Fail" by Cat Hicks really really stuck out to me. Keep rereading bits and pieces of it as it connects to my career in coaching and professional development of technical teams & orgs.

It's a very strong reaffirmation on the way I typically coach and interact in my technical and social spaces has some amount of pre-existing research and thought. My anecdotal evidence is that people always responded warmly to my interactions with time, but it was just anecdotal. My ability to lead with courage and build those true feelings of shared belonging & recognition for abilities & talents.

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@gregdosh 🥰 absolutely love this dialogue with your important expert lived experience, thank you!

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By the way just a general comment that if I only studied the things I liked and supported personally I wouldn't be much of a social scientist

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I know it can be tough in this world of linkedin thoughtfluencers but if you try really, really, REALLY hard you can tell the difference*

*many years of empirical research that required an absolutely endless financial sacrifice and claims based on scientifically rigorous work that's in dialogue with hundreds if not thousands of other scientists and cites them instead of claiming to own everything

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Pointed to this paper from a column on it: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4464593

Folks in dev psych and elsewhere often talk about girls being underconfident. But how rarely we frame in terms of boys' overconfidence.

"Across a range of countries, contexts, and domains, men have been found to exhibit higher degrees of confidence in their ability than women (Kay and Shipman, 2014). This phenomenon has been particularly salient in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)."

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"Interestingly, the objective mathematics ability of the co-twin does not matter for either boys or girls, only the self-assessment. This again points to the importance of stereotypes pervading sibling interactions as opposed to actual ability. The peer effects literature in economics has also highlighted the importance of non-cognitive peer effects over and above traditional cognitive peer effects"

This is something many miss ime. "Noncognitive" beliefs really do win out over real performance.

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Another good paper for the Gender Delusions bookmark folder, which I highly recommend you keep as well for any time someone starts to go on about equity gaps not mattering without reading the basic literature! Disparities in whose performance in STEM we recognize deeply hurts our ability to solve important problems in the world.

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@Di4na Yeah!! You may recall that in our New Dev paper we saw group differences in how full-time professional developers* rated the QUALITY of coding output from tools like Copilot. VERY striking was this, tested statistically but illustrated here descriptively: "56% of Racially Minoritized developers reported a negative perception of AI Quality, compared with 28% of all developers."

*this is imp to note bc it does not speak for eg learners or others

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2gej5

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@Di4na

But interestingly, the gender effect was in the opposite direction (women rated it higher) than we hypothesized. However women were also less likely to be familiar with and use it, so could be a halo effect or intimidation effect or any number of things. Exploratory, needs more work.

I am actually very surprised that more folks haven't been interested in talking to me more about this aspect of that particular project which I think is very important and have tried to share a bunch

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@Di4na it's also very easy to find differences in any study where you divide folks into different groups in an unprincipled way, so we used a very careful approach to maximize first for justifying which group differences we included at all; ones that did not match this bar were not examined but may exist.

Our sample hit incredibly good targets for representation compared to any other software research I've seen on this topic but it was still an observational survey study so more work needed.

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@jvschrag indeed as this paper points out, parents directly affirm and are part of this by overestimating sons' abilities and underestimating daughters. Boys would have to prove that they AREN'T good at math and girls have to prove that they are and that proof doesn't last. Boys' proof is "sticky" and pervasive and girls' proof is transient and only applies to a moment. This holds for adults in careers.

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@jvschrag a great one

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@Lizette603_23 I feel like that's covered by the first sentence no?

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@Lizette603_23 oh all good we're just chatting :)

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@Di4na big same! I think one of the major problems is that most research teams empowered to release more foundational research (eg think about microsoft research maybe) very rarely hire social scientists. They have interesting qual work but the dialogue is not there with the fields that actually study things like our evaluations and biases in those evaluations.

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@Di4na this is said with high regard for much of the work I've seen from individuals in those places -- just a very general observation about the gap in social science expertise truly being used in software research.

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@Di4na that's a given :) But some structures do allow for this. I mean I built one -- if software research used preregistration and similar practices more, researchers would have leverage against internal pressure that wants to hold certain findings back. I am a big believer that for tech to have trusted research we need to adopt open science practices. (even as I am still learning those practices myself)

Our new dev project for instance, you can see our hypotheses and which didn't pan out

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@Di4na a really good point. Continuing to shift a lot of weight onto the individual (tired) human.

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@Di4na oh yeah and I appreciate that mindfulness (after all I would appreciate it being recognized for the insane amount of effort that it is). I do dream sometimes about external tech collectives that researchers could be part of that uphold shared transparency standards or something similar that would give protection and leverage for scientists who are at big tech cos. I think turning our backs on all applied researchers is a loss of great minds who really do want to do good work often.

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Great day to be reminded that when you are creative and different and innovative, most business structures will basically do everything they possibly can to suffocate that and stuff you into their pre-existing little well controlled boxes.

Intellectual and knowledge work is no protection in a world where the meritocracy of intellect is a distraction narrative.

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@mt it sounds like you're doing amazing things. I hope you can take care of yourself and find the appreciation you deserve.

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@mt I can really relate and empathize. That sounds incredibly lonely and I wonder if there aren't a lot of people benefitting from and being helped by your work but not closing the gap to tell you so. Obviously I can't speak to your personal complex situation but I do wish you that feedback, community and appreciation because it is what we all deserve when we help others and our organizations.

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