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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
I find this obstruction from senior professors in social psyc who have never coded and say most psych students want to work in "caring professions" and it wastes resources teaching the small number of interested students something "only used in engineering" (sic)
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But I think another point is that many faculty fear the NSS and other forms of student feedback and so are less willing to challenge student preconceptions of what is important or interesting.
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I think it's also worth noting that some of those faculty are products of a system that didn't teach coding or advanced stats- they're not just worried students won't engage, they're worried they can't teach it well (if they're fluent in it at all).
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Yup. I mention this in the blog post.
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