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> And almost exclusively sought by those lacking in other forms of achievement or sense of identity. Careful, that generalization can be used almost anywhere (
by ProAm 8y ago
> And almost exclusively sought by those lacking in other forms of achievement or sense of identity.
Careful, that generalization can be used almost anywhere (like on HN). Warily scream into the abyss.
- simias 8y agoI'm not really sure HN is really comparable to Mensa but at any rate it doesn't invalidate what the parent is saying. If an article was talking about, say, programmers in general while only sampling HN users it would probably suffer from a heavy bias as well.
- __s 8y agoI worked remotely for the first few years of my career. I assumed most programmers would be like HN, as reflected by my one other friend who programmed & also happened to read HN. Then I began working in an office with programmers, & was shocked to realize most programmers don't want to go on a forum after work that'll often discuss programming..
- coldtea 8y agoWell, there are lots of very high achievers (great engineers at top companies, people with important contributions, industry legends, even people like Alan Kay occasionally) on HN, so there's that...
- jethro_tell 8y agoMensa probably has a couple antidotes floating around as well, so there's that...