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Re:The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann by yellowstuff on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:51PM (#21551080)
You may be using "smarter" to mean something different than IQ, but if you mean IQ then you're wrong. Different professions have different distributions of IQ, and programmers are among the professions with the highest average IQ. They definitely skew higher than house painters.

https://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/Occupations.aspx

Programmers may not be wiser, kinder, or better than anyone else, but on average they are a bit smarter.

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Re:The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann by spookthesunset on Saturday November 16, 2019 @12:41AM (#21551223)
If you genuinely believe programmers have a higher iq than normal, dunning kruger would like to have a word with you.

To many engineers are way to convinced that the fact they know any kind of engineering makes them automatically smart at everything outside of their narrow domain of expertise (eg: programming).

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Re:The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann by nl on Sunday November 17, 2019 @04:00AM (#21557134)
Err, this is weird.

Programming is correlated with higher IQ.

IQ is correlated with spatial reasoning and the kinds of multi-step puzzle solving that is often needed in programming.

I don't know why you find this so surprising or offensive. It's simply that the IQ tests the kinds of things that often make good programmers.

IQ isn't the only thing correlated with programming ability, and people with high IQ are often extremely dumb in many areas.

(I don't have a particularly high IQ)

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Re:The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann by haimez on Saturday November 16, 2019 @01:08AM (#21551291)
Unfortunate use of “to” or the “Krugered” programmers might have listened
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Re:The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann by elbear on Saturday November 16, 2019 @09:09AM (#21552687)
I don't know if coding makes you smart, but the causal relationship might go the other way: you're more likely to be good at coding, the smarter you are.
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