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> "Yes, and? For example, best programmers are overwhelmingly white and male, because majority of programmers are white and male." Understanding of this point
by Crito 13y ago
> "Yes, and? For example, best programmers are overwhelmingly white and male, because majority of programmers are white and male."
Understanding of this point is perhaps facilitated by also mentioning that the worst programmers are also overwhelmingly white and male, for the same reason.
- general_failure 13y agoYou haven't seen bad programmers have you? Trust me they are not white :)
- jiggy2011 13y agoNone of them are white? I have plenty of anecdata to the contrary!
- lmm 13y agoAre they, though? I wish I could just agree, but inconveniently the three or four strikingly terrible programmers I've encountered don't conform to this. (And the worst of them, who I only knew as a name on an @author tag, I had assumed to be male (and felt a kind of relief about it - "I'm not being sexist, worst of all is x and he's a guy"), so this isn't a case of prejudices clouding the assessment).
- Crito 13y agoMy comment is more of a statement about what you should expect if competency is evenly distributed in both populations, but one population is larger than another. More competent people and more incompetent people would be expected from the larger population, if competency is evenly distributed.