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This article is a good example of how urban legends get started. Now in addition to the one about how boys liked microcomputers in the 1980s because they were o
by montrose 9y ago
This article is a good example of how urban legends get started. Now in addition to the one about how boys liked microcomputers in the 1980s because they were only marketed to boys (when in fact early microcomputer marketing = "16k of RAM!"), we have another where the entire flow of programming jobs was redirected by a pair of psychologists no one seems even to have heard of.
I wonder how many people reading this article will unquestioningly accept this explanation, and how many future articles will retail this story as if it were an established fact.
- patorjk 9y agoI found that baffling. Not only had I never heard of that story, it doesn't seem to pass the sniff test to me. Companies going out of their way to hire anti-social people? I think it's the other way around. A company might keep a good programmer despite them being anti-social, not because they are antisocial.