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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the be-nice-or-I'm-gonna-cry dept.

El Reg has an interesting read on an OSS developers survey:

Most of the negative behaviour is explained as "rudeness", which has been experienced witnessed by 45 per cent of participants and experienced by 16 per cent. GitHub's summary of the survey says really nasty stuff like "sexual advances, stalking, or doxxing are each encountered by less than five per cent of respondents and experienced by less than two per cent (but cumulatively witnessed by 14%, and experienced by three per cent)." Twenty five per cent of women respondents reported experiencing "language or content that makes them feel unwelcome", compared to 15 per cent of men.

This stuff has consequences: 21 per cent of those who see negative behaviour bail from projects they were working on.

Now I take an entirely different conclusion than El Reg on this. To me this says that two or three percent of respondents have valid reason to bitch about bad behavior but a further eighteen or nineteen percent above that simply are not capable of working with other people. Come on, who here has never held a job where someone on staff was a dickhead/bitch but you kept on working anyway? Me, I've not once held a job where there were zero personality conflicts. In my less than humble opinion, part of being an adult is being able to deal professionally or at least civilly with other human beings who do not cater to your every sensitivity.

Maybe I'm just a relic of the past though. Maybe the future really is a bunch of snowflakes crying to $boss to get you fired if you say or do anything they dislike.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by looorg on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:50PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Wednesday June 07 2017, @09:50PM (#522240)

    I can spot more then two or three problems with the survey. That said I do agree with what you said. This is probably a horribly biased collection of data. The people responding are probably really skewed. One could download it but I seriously can't be arsed. Just from looking at the information they choose to provide I find it to annoying for words to express.

    While they do mention it that the numbers are rounded and doesn't always sum up to 100 that is really a rookie mistake to make. It's annoying as hell. Plus as everyone that does shit surveys do they always forget to give us the n-value. Reg puts it at about 6000 respondents. As mentioned I know I could have downloaded the data and looked for myself but it's such an important thing to include so if they can't be arsed then I can't be arsed and I'll write off the entire survey as the shit survey that it is. Ignoring the n value is fairly common it seems when you have a bad survey that you want to make sound and look a lot more important then it is.

    So from about 6k respondents we know that about 95% of them are men, 3% are women and then there is that 1% of confused people that refuse to be labeled (+ another percent or so of people lost to rounding errors). Out of said people 1% identify as transgender and 7% as homosexuals or something similar in the parade of HBTQxxx-letters. This alone is enough information to just write this whole thing off. One can only guess here that it's a small vocal minority demanding special privileges that are feeling hurt about how rude all these developers are that are freely giving away their software ...

    On a funnier note I'm sure it's just a happy coincident that all the behavior graphs in figure 2 look like penises ...

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 08 2017, @02:35AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 08 2017, @02:35AM (#522398) Journal

    I wonder about integrity - not only of the poll-makers, but the poll-takers.

    With a large enough sample of poll-takers, things average out, and you generally get some semblance of truth. But, how many whiners and complainers took the poll, with the intent of making things look worse than they are? It only takes a few activists to get a lot of attention.