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Don't worry, people on HN know what filthy beasts data analysts truly are. Everyone who digs that type of mathematics, is also doing some other naughty things f
by scantis 5y ago
Don't worry, people on HN know what filthy beasts data analysts truly are.
Everyone who digs that type of mathematics, is also doing some other naughty things for fun.
What is surprising from this shotty paper is that they conclude boring people are perceived as "less competent".
Seems counter-intuitive, considering accounting and taxes.
- mattcwilson 5y agoI’m guessing you didn’t read the whole paper. Perhaps you thought it would be boring? They did two different studies. One took a list of occupations, and asked the respondents “Joe is an accountant. How boring does that make him seem, 1-7?” The other study then created a vignette combining attributes that were individually rated into a bigger description, then asked “how competent (skilled, hard-working) does this person seem?” So the connection is boringness -> low competency, and not necessarily all data analyst -> boring. Data analyst was down the list a bit on boringness - less than accounting, law, and a few others. Mathematics on the other hand had the lowest boringness rating of the occupations.
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