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Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow

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On 7/23/2012 8:51 AM, Alexander Serebrenik wrote:
> Do you participate in StackOverflow discussions?
>
> As a part of a joint on-going research effort of the Brunel
> University (UK) and Eindhoven University of Technology (The
> Netherlands)  on the impact of collaboration sites on the developers
> community, we would like to understand the demographics of
> StackOverflow participants and their activity. Specifically we are
> focusing on how genders, minorities and cultural background are
> represented in the population of users and participants of
> StackOverflow.

StackOverflow is open to anyone in the world who can write and read 
English. Aside from political interference and language problems, the 
other factors should be mostly irrelevant.

> Therefore, we have prepared a small questionnaire:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEhtUVNQTEJmRTlwMVJSQ1hkeUZTR3c6MQ#gid=0

The scientific value of self-selected respondents is pretty low.

>  In our previous research we have proposed an h-index for open source
> developers
> (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Developing+an+h-index+for+OSS+developers.%22),

This is a deceptive and time-wasting link. It only says ...

Abstract The public data available in Open Source Software (OSS) 
repositories has been used for many practical reasons: detecting 
community structures; identifying key roles among developers; 
understanding software quality; predicting the arousal of bugs in large ...

which is not even the first sentence of the abstract. I still have no 
idea what 'h' means.

The actual link is
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6224288&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6224288

and the cost to read is $31 as part of a large conference proceedings 
book. (Apparently, members can read the 4 pages for free.)

Leaving aside the point that this is not directly related to Python, my 
opinion is that if the authors will not make past and future papers 
freely available, not even an abstract, they should not ask for valuable 
free data from freely donated time.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Alexander Serebrenik <A.Serebrenik@tue.nl> - 2012-07-23 05:51 -0700
  Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-07-23 17:44 -0400
    Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-24 01:30 +0000
      Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 22:51 -0400
        Freedom and Data (was Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow) rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 20:56 -0700
          Re: Freedom and Data (was Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 14:28 +1000
            Re: Freedom and Data (was Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow) rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 22:26 -0700
        Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-24 05:34 +0000
          Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-07-23 22:56 -0700
            Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Alexander Serebrenik <A.Serebrenik@tue.nl> - 2012-07-24 00:26 -0700
            Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-24 08:33 +0000
      Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-24 14:19 +1000
  Re: Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Evan Driscoll <driscoll@cs.wisc.edu> - 2012-07-23 17:01 -0500
  Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-07-23 15:09 -0700
    Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Alexander Serebrenik <A.Serebrenik@tue.nl> - 2012-07-23 15:14 -0700
      Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2012-07-23 20:01 -0400
    Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Alexander Serebrenik <A.Serebrenik@tue.nl> - 2012-07-23 15:14 -0700
  Re: Gender, Representativeness and Reputation in StackOverflow Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-07-23 18:14 -0400

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