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> I know accountancy and law students who were socially well adjusted that played more Counter Strike than I did messing about with my Linux system when I was a

> I know accountancy and law students who were socially well adjusted that played more Counter Strike than I did messing about with my Linux system when I was a student! Sure, there are individuals at any point on the scale. We're talking about averages though. I have no qualms about disagreeing over where the averages lie. In fact I would widen my generalization and say that younger people are, on average, more comfortable talking through screens than directly person to person. Young engineers are just a subset of that who I think are more likely to be screen focused. I'm okay with embracing some elements of stereotypes. Denying them entirely seems like an equally useless generalization. This sub-thread was started by someone who felt open office environments aren't effective. Yet, open offices can be a tool for getting people used to person to person interaction. Every person, group, and organization will decide whether they think that's important or not.

chris_wot 10y ago
Just a small difference of opinion, I honestly asked to understand where you were coming from :-) I've also got only anecdotal information, in all likelihood you could be correct! Open communication within any organisation is very important so a developer who sits in his own office all day is a concern I'm in agreement with you. I guess I'm just not convinced of the reasons for the behaviour. But I think your observations are interesting and valid, so I appreciate you taking the time to give me a solid answer!
- studentrob 10y ago
  Sure thing! Thanks to you also for making me think =) > I guess I'm just not convinced of the reasons for the behaviour Reasons for behavior, even for a single individual, are super tough if not impossible to nail down. But we can make some educated guesses based on correlations. If we prevent ourselves from forming such hypotheses, life might get pretty boring. In hindsight, my original statement could be more accurately prefaced by "in my experience, ..."

chris_wot 10y ago

Just a small difference of opinion, I honestly asked to understand where you were coming from :-) I've also got only anecdotal information, in all likelihood you could be correct! Open communication within any organisation is very important so a developer who sits in his own office all day is a concern I'm in agreement with you. I guess I'm just not convinced of the reasons for the behaviour. But I think your observations are interesting and valid, so I appreciate you taking the time to give me a solid answer!

studentrob 10y ago
Sure thing! Thanks to you also for making me think =) > I guess I'm just not convinced of the reasons for the behaviour Reasons for behavior, even for a single individual, are super tough if not impossible to nail down. But we can make some educated guesses based on correlations. If we prevent ourselves from forming such hypotheses, life might get pretty boring. In hindsight, my original statement could be more accurately prefaced by "in my experience, ..."