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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 would go further to say that all children at beginning of secondary school should be taught code- python or a.n.other
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Replying to @o_guest
Sorry if I misunderstood-very important issue. I’m worried that we’re not just failing psychology students but that we’re not equipping children generally for future jobs.
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100% agreed! It is heartening to read about the fact that a few countries agree w us. See: "The sooner we start teaching kids to code, the better. I think everybody should be taught to code in primary school and thankfully so do quite a few countries."http://neuroplausible.com/programming
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http://veekaybee.github.io/2017/02/22/being-a-woman-in-programming-in-the-soviet-union/ … by
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And also https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/how-programmable-calculators-and-a-scifi-story-brought-soviet-teens-into-the-digital-age … - I remember having classes in BASIC around grade 7 or so on big computers (PDP-11 with as much as 64K memory, green-on-black LRT screen)
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Nice — thanks for sharing. I knew some of this already and am always interested to read more.
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We the immigrants rule :). Math and coding are comparatively cheap skills to learn, vs. science or medicine where lab work is required.
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Migrant pride 
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