"review of nearly 100 studies shows that, by age 6, children already think that boys are better than girls at computer science and engineering. With age, girls increasingly believe in male superiority in these technical fields..."
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There are a few analyses like this.
Women *are* better at programming. It's really weird that it's a somewhat recent development that there's a bias toward men being better. The "computers" behind everything from the atomic bomb to Apollo were women.
*I believe* that women are better programmers because they tend to write conservative code that they meticulously review where men do not --
Only (rel) recently did "the boys" take over these tasks and they are very sloppy.
https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/?td=sd
To your point, the goal isn't to declare a winner by sex. The goal is to show we have plenty of information that the outlook of boys being better "by default" is wrong.
That's great you didn't personally observe that. Possibly due to your small sample size compared to those used by the article, as well as the assessments and metrics they designed specifically for the research.