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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
Not sure I agree that coding is hard - except in the general point that teaching anything is hard. Formal systems seem to be hard to teach but I suspect it is partly illusory. Non-formal systems tend be easier to bluff your way through ...
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Keep thinking about it. Language, music etc. lots of formal systems where women are common. (Maggie Boden used to use the example of knitting ...)
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I have myself used the example of knitting.https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/807250234921390080 …
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"middle aged or older" women literally stitched code for Apollo Guidance Computer for moon mission. cc:@AndyTWoods
https://www.quora.com/How-much-more-computing-power-does-an-iPhone-6-have-than-Apollo-11-What-is-another-modern-object-I-can-relate-the-same-computing-power-to … pic.twitter.com/NDR5xcGLJi
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