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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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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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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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Fascinatingly, in line with social constructivist style framing on this, self-judgments not independent from our beliefs about others' identities too. The overall acceptance, bolstering, & approval of overconfidence of men in an environment may have a direct penalty for non-men around them:

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"objective mathematics abilities only explain a small share of the gender gap in self-assessed mathematics abilities, and the gap is even larger within opposite-sex twin pairs. We find that having a confident male co-twin increases the confidence of boys but decreases the confidence of girls, not just in mathematics, but also in their self-assessment of other abilities"

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"What is perhaps worrying, however, is that the gender gap in favor of men in self-assessed ability has been shown to remain even between individuals of the same ability or when women outperform men (Ehrlinger and Dunning, 2003; Niederle and Vesterlund, 2007). This male overconfidence in their ability has been shown to explain later inequality in the labor market"

Ok econ, I mean I think we can drop the "perhaps," from your friendly neighborhood psych person. We just ARE worried.

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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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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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And honestly this is true of a lot of academic fields too in this era in history

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Having a bad day might share a new paper!

This is my intellectual cycle

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Well I'm finally reading this study and yah this is about as depressing as I thought it would be

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2818061

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Even though I'm not and will never be a software developer, I can't tell you how it has enriched my life with technology to understand and immediately think about developers so constantly, those who made what I encounter every day. When my texts work and when I get a security message and when I notice some feature I have this little ping of empathy & awareness that someone built that. It has un-alienated me from so much technology and I wish more people-who-aren't-developers felt this with me

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One of my favorite things about playing lever harp is that all my folk music books have "easy arrangement" on one side and "hard arrangement" on the other and I feel like more things in life should present us with that choice in our day

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@cyberlyra wow truly???! How unusual and delightful!! Also lever harp or pedal?

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@brittag @dys_morphia yeah I have some of her books! I primarily learned in oral tradition so I actually don't have a lot of sheet music but yeah major influence in harp revival wasn't she

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Have had a very large Eagle Creek backpack for 26 years, including two happy usages of their lifetime warranty.

Am doing more short travel these days (a few days here, a few days there) and airlines are getting stricter about carryon sizes. So... got a new Eagle Creek rollaboard. So far, am impressed with a lot of the small design touches. Check back here in 26 years for a review.

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@luis_in_brief I've had one of their rollers for like twelve years, checking in 🫡

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We are trying to find/pick a place to stay for a few months for my wife's sabbatical and omg. We're not even going that far from home for that long and we are so stressed about it. How do people even do this.

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@willyyam noooooooo :((( oof

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This post made me feel like maybe I would consider allowing knowledge about Linux into my brain

https://kind.social/@PurpleJillybeans/112480588977913630

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@chrishuck @shom we're in the realm of gripes I am NOT going to let enter my brain 😂

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