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I doubt that. There's a lot of people going into programming because they think a) IT is akin to playing computer games all day. b) It's easy work in a climat
by Xylakant 13y ago
I doubt that. There's a lot of people going into programming because they think
a) IT is akin to playing computer games all day.
b) It's easy work in a climatized office with solid pay
c) The jobs are relatively secure and abundant.
I've seen many people go into IT that would much better have been employed elsewhere, so I think that we, as programmers are not more intelligent on average than the rest of the population. I might agree that people who enjoy programming have a knack for a certain type of intelligence and problem solving ability, but I don't think that programmers are limited to the group of people that enjoy programming.
- kenster07 13y agoYou have a point. Sometimes, I forget that there are actually people out there who pursue careers where they know they won't enjoy the journey.
- ogoldberg 13y agolooks like the one part you said you might agree with in your very last sentence is 100% of the group that they were talking about: people who enjoy programming.
- Xylakant 13y agoActually, since I'm the author of the post they're referring to I can say that the group we're referring to is "programmers" or rather "people you'd hire as a programmer" which is a superset of "people who enjoy programming." Even if you only consider people who enjoy programming I'd be very careful about calling them "more intelligent". They're probably good solvers of a certain kind of logical puzzle, but intelligence encompasses much much more than that.