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Who knows about correlation or causation, but programming and humility go together. Training people to always ask the questions: - How do I know that this is
by mbar84 5y ago
Who knows about correlation or causation, but programming and humility go together. Training people to always ask the questions:
- How do I know that this is true?
- What would otherwise have to be true for this conclusion to follow?
- How can I bisect this process to test a hypothesis?
So much wishful thinking and jumping to conclusions could be avoided if programming (and debugging more specifically) is a training to viscerally understand the scientific method.
- tompazourek 5y agoHumility is a great personality trait, but from my experience, programmers are unfortunately rarely humble.