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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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I agree with you, coding is not easy and saying something is easy when it's not, to encourage people, will backfire and surely make them think it's not for them when they find themselves having trouble.
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I've taught a friend programming and thinking it easy can cut into your patience/empathy reserves. Things like functions, higher order functions, objects, even variables, that seem trivial require a mind set change that once had, is easy to forget never having had.
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At the same time, I think so many underestimate the intelligence of the average person. So even if it's not easy, it doesn't mean they can't learn it.
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This is the perspective of someone who thinks if even they can learn something, then it must be trivial. So I'm only ever struggling to learn or thinking I'm making a big deal over fisher price toys. This isn't a healthy perspective for me or with people not yet at same point.
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... but flip that around. Is philosophy easy? Is managing a football club easy? Is writing an essay easy? These are all hard things - I just suspect that its easier to know that you are not a master programmer than a master philosopher ...
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Its easier to write a functioning programme (albeit a simple one) than a good essay or a good poem ...
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For me, yes. But I'm loathe to assume that's true for everybody.
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I suspect that the formal knowledge = hard narrative just isn't empirically defensible unless you can calibrate task difficulty on a common scale. Is writing a hard essay answer easier than a hard programming exercise? Which implies coding is hard is an unhelpful myth ...
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