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No there's a lot of articles on IQ and intelligence. Less on hard work. Mainly because most people on here are programmers and the job and interview is related

No there's a lot of articles on IQ and intelligence. Less on hard work. Mainly because most people on here are programmers and the job and interview is related to intelligence. People who take pride in there programming skill think they're intelligent. As a programmer myself I think most programmers are average. Programming isn't a very hard job imo. It doesn't require a huge amount of intelligence hence the reason why it's one of the few occupations that can be entered without a degree, with self training, or a bootcamp. People think this is a field that requires high intelligence. This is false. It's a field that requires slightly above average intelligence mostly. It depends on your specialty but for the typical web dev software engineer it's more closer to average.

Jensson 3y ago
> No there's a lot of articles on IQ and intelligence. Less on hard work There really isn't, simple search shows: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=hard%20work&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Compare to for example search for intelligence, mostly results about AI or they are about downplaying intelligence, not saying it is important: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=intelligence&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... or intelligent, same thing here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=intelligent&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Results that talks about the importance of intelligence get way less votes and are way less popular. Hard work tend to get hundreds of upvotes and are among the most popular on this site, articles about important of intelligence barely get any so are hard to even find via search.
- corethree 3y ago
  Look up IQ. A search on intelligence is obviously obfuscated by AI topics.
tonyedgecombe 3y ago
>As a programmer myself I think most programmers are average. I would be very surprised if that was the case, especially now that a CS degree is a requirement most programming jobs.

Jensson 3y ago

> No there's a lot of articles on IQ and intelligence. Less on hard work There really isn't, simple search shows: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=hard%20work&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Compare to for example search for intelligence, mostly results about AI or they are about downplaying intelligence, not saying it is important: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=intelligence&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... or intelligent, same thing here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=intelligent&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Results that talks about the importance of intelligence get way less votes and are way less popular. Hard work tend to get hundreds of upvotes and are among the most popular on this site, articles about important of intelligence barely get any so are hard to even find via search.

corethree 3y ago
Look up IQ. A search on intelligence is obviously obfuscated by AI topics.

tonyedgecombe 3y ago

>As a programmer myself I think most programmers are average. I would be very surprised if that was the case, especially now that a CS degree is a requirement most programming jobs.