I was almost derailed by the grossly oversimplified programmer personality dorito chart at the beginning. Personality types are merely stereotypes for shortcutt

I was almost derailed by the grossly oversimplified programmer personality dorito chart at the beginning. Personality types are merely stereotypes for shortcutting the immensely complex network of factors underlying every decision in every individual and should not be wielded without a deeper understanding. Soldier past that part and the article espouses a lamentation common in all social situations: that people often seem to deny truth to protect the integrity of the reality they currently grasp. The essay experiment where groups are interviewed about the deltas in their perceptions after one group is paid $20 to write an essay supporting a viewpoint they oppose and another is paid $1 demonstrates this nicely. The fact that those paid $20 hold on to their original views with more conviction seems to suggest that it is the value people place on their past ideas (more so the efficacy of the abilities they used to arrive to them I suspect) that precludes them from considering the current ideas being proposed. There is likely nothing special about the environment of programming that gives rise to this phenomenon, and it is probably something more fundamental to the way that humans have grown to interpret the world around them that causes this situation. Anyone who's ever tried to have reasonable discourse with a scouting attitude rather than soldiering one on any subject will have noticed that at some point, some people seem to double down when presented with clear evidence against their views.