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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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"Legacy reasons" is the only ones I can come up with, the mantra of "we have always done it like this and all of our textbooks were written with this in mind" I do not have one within reach, but iirc statistics books used on me had SPSS GUI pictures; not a "really good reason".
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OK, yeah. Agreed then!
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A GUI *can* lower cognitive load by having a layout similar to something students know (eg, opening, loading and saving in RStudio or spyder looks like MS Office, which most will know from school). However, this argument applies more to IDEs than what I think you mean by GUIs.
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And whilst a GUI *can* add constraints (as noted by https://twitter.com/SophieSKenny/status/1067420618877005824 …), when teaching novices constraints can be useful (avoids the "blank page freeze" problem), provided they don't get in the way of doing "real" stuff.
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That's the limit of (very weak) justifications for GUIs that I can come up with, however...
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Great post (as always) Olivia. Thank you for writing it.