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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Wednesday June 07 2017, @11:15PM (2 children)
Anyway it's easy to spin. If "16% have experienced rudeness" that seems to me a shockingly low number, we should be asking how it's possible that 84% of any population has not experienced such a universal annoyance. Doubtless those are people that just stopped in a couple of times and didn't stick around.
On the other hand 'less than 2%' reported experiencing the really nasty stuff, and it's a fair bet that a good percentage of that group are both givers and receivers, so to speak, so this survey really vindicates those who say there is no systematic problem, only a few isolated incidences, doesn't it?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 08 2017, @02:39AM (1 child)
"fair bet that a good percentage of that group are both givers and receivers,"
That's probably accurate. "experienced rudeness" could mean that someone was rude to you, or that you merely witnessed someone being rude to a group or class that you belong to - or it could mean that you were rude.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday June 08 2017, @03:47AM
And again, I know that's not *always* the case, just saying it's clearly the most common case.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?