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Not only does being around objective machines all day long not make us more objective, I think it has the opposite effect. Specifically, programmers like to pe
by wtracy 9y ago
Not only does being around objective machines all day long not make us more objective, I think it has the opposite effect.
Specifically, programmers like to perceive themselves as being objective and logical. This opens a giant blind spot toward the biases that we do have. The resulting cognitive dissonance allows all kinds of irrational beliefs to fester.
I used to think that the most wonderful thing about working in engineering was that engineering organizations are meritocracies. Then I realized that a organization that genuinely believes itself to be a meritocracy while being rife with nepotism is actually much worse than an organization where cronyism happens out in the open!
- dlwdlw 9y agoAgreed. Though I'd add that objectivism itself pursued and achieved as an end goal successfully , opens blind spots as well especially to things like heuristics and intuition. Basically anywhere where models don't exist or are too flaky. The IKEA effect as a weakness should be about letting go of ego as a virtue rather than objectiveness as a virtue.