Same here. I hate thinking the GUI way. As if the actions one can take are set in linear order. Computer programing is in this sense like writing natural language. Imagine doing an essay using a menu and thinking that's normal.
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I (mostly) agree with your arguments, but why the title? you give no evidence to think this has anything to do with sex. the claim that UGs can't or won't learn to code is pervasive throughout the liberal arts and social sciences, including male-heavy fields like polisci
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I've heard versions of the "our UGs won't code" from quite a few faculty—both male and female—and never got the sense that they were thinking about women. ask most male UG psych majors if they want to take a bunch of stats and programming classes and the answer will also be no
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I agree that the title doesn't really fit with the general direction of the piece, which is essentially about undergraduates in psychology.
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Having read more from this thread, I realize that there wasn't any point in writing what I wrote. Your post was a great way to frame this discussion, thanks for writing it.
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Why women in psychology can't program
"About two months ago my brother, who works in a data science on social psychology data, asked me why his colleagues, who are women and have PhDs in psychology, cannot code"