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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"http://neuroplausible.com/programming
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Replying to @o_guest
The “Stats in R” intro class in my linguistics MA was optional. many female students didn’t come back after the 1st class, saying they were scared of R. WTF? Who gave them the idea they are not capable of this? I think that’s a big part of the problem too, even before university
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Replying to @JanaHasenacker @o_guest
This sounds a lot like people who tell me flat out 'I'm not technical' in that tone like "I literally have internalised that I would not be able learn how to program a DVR". It's like learned helplessness or something.
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It's often based off of sexism TBF — internalised misogyny, etc. As I mention: "The male geek trope and related ideas contribute to driving women away from coding and generally STEM subjects in The West." http://neuroplausible.com/programming pic.twitter.com/Z18lWkLZij
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