I blog: Why do so few people major in computer science? Here are 11 different ideas to evaluate, comments welcome.http://danwang.co/why-so-few-computer-science-majors/ …
incidentally female proportion was similar to hard sciences until mid-80s when plummeted to similar to engineering
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anyway pet theory is programming has a reputation (fair or not, I'd say largely exaggerated for aggrandizement) for...
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...being freewheeling and unconventional, risk-taking, more a lifestyle than a career
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so despite being unusually lucrative it isn't perceived in the same "safe, approved career" category as doctor/lawyer/etc
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and going to and actually graduating college is highly risk-averse behavior imo
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thanks, Alice. I'll make an addendum to my article given new explanations, let me know if I shouldn't link to these tweets as a cite...
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Do you not buy that bimodality is a myth? http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme/papers/2016/icer_2016_bimodal.pdf …
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oh, nah I'd just always taken it as lore and fits my biases
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Of course there is reason to give less weight to the psych experiment part of the paper, but it'd be nice for the folklore to be accurate.
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