On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:06:50PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:35:03PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:21:08AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> > You have an alternate theory explaining the low incidence of > >> > women in male dominated activities like Debian, free software > >> > coding, coding in general, and CS overall? > >> > >> Sunspots. It's at least as convincing. > > If that is the best theory you can advance, forgive me if I > prefer to stick to one with some scientific backing, and which tends > to actually explain the empirically observed data. The pattern of > behaviour, and the pattern of inclusion is not random, so your theory > is a very poor fit. You're welcome to pick a default assumption (although I'll point out that assumptions invariably play people false). But you can't claim that it's true because it's the only possibility. Nor can you claim that it's true because it's been proven, because it hasn't. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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