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Measuring your skills against others and peers could be a great deterrent for impostor syndrome.
by pgt 13y ago
Measuring your skills against others and peers could be a great deterrent for impostor syndrome.
- derekp7 13y agoActually, in my opinion, this could actually increase the feeling of impostor syndrome. Because no matter how good you are, there will be many people better than you. So any forum which puts your skills up against a random selection of others skilled in your craft will clearly show how far from the top you are. Unless, of course, you are consistently the best, but then it really stinks for everyone that you beat.
- schmatz 13y agoThis will be a very interesting thing to study. Our leaderboard rankings tend to be extremely fluid, and I wonder what the net effect tends to be in terms of impostor syndrome.
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoThis reads like it has an assumption that people's programming ability is some hidden constant that gets compared. In reality it depends a lot on the task, motivation, current physical health, and mental exhaustion.