>Men show a stronger bias towards connecting to other men than women do for connecting to other women. This happens even when controlling for content productivity.
If this is true then it seems to be the important piece of content here. Recommendation algorithms are generally designed to show the user what they want to see, rather than an equal, fair, or diverse set of options, so it sounds like they're working as intended here. This type of analysis could be done with any characteristic, not just gender, leaving me unsure as to what the specific purpose of this article is - if users want X more than Y then it should be no surprise that X is presented more often or receives more traffic.
If this is true then it seems to be the important piece of content here. Recommendation algorithms are generally designed to show the user what they want to see, rather than an equal, fair, or diverse set of options, so it sounds like they're working as intended here. This type of analysis could be done with any characteristic, not just gender, leaving me unsure as to what the specific purpose of this article is - if users want X more than Y then it should be no surprise that X is presented more often or receives more traffic.