Re:Being a Developer After 40
by BurningFrog on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @01:08PM
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This is a hopeless topic to discuss without a way to measure these factors.
The way it is discussed here, the privilege theory is unfalsifiable. You can always trot out more (unmeasured) privilege categories to explain any empirical data.
Like the saying goes, "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense".
While I'm microranting, I'd also love to hear how big a factor privilege is compared to other factors for people's success in life.
Something like: Privilege: 40%, Effort: 30%, Luck: 30%, with a breakdown of each kind of privilege, and explanation of how it's measured. Give me that, and I'll start taking it seriously as a way to understand the world.
The way it is discussed here, the privilege theory is unfalsifiable. You can always trot out more (unmeasured) privilege categories to explain any empirical data.
Like the saying goes, "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense".
While I'm microranting, I'd also love to hear how big a factor privilege is compared to other factors for people's success in life.
Something like: Privilege: 40%, Effort: 30%, Luck: 30%, with a breakdown of each kind of privilege, and explanation of how it's measured. Give me that, and I'll start taking it seriously as a way to understand the world.