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Re:Dispelling myths about the autistic programmer by SiVal on Saturday July 09, 2016 @04:38PM (#12063212)
And this error is ironically an illustration of the exact problem he was commenting on: our brains tend to work by association, and implication (A implies B) tends to be interpreted as association (A implies B means A and B are associated, which means they go together, so A implies B is a way to say B implies A).
Re:Dispelling myths about the autistic programmer by groovy2shoes on Saturday July 09, 2016 @10:15PM (#12064266)
Ah, good ol' modus moron, as Angelo Margaris's "First Order Mathematical Logic" calls affirming the consequent.