Re:Cognitive Biases in Software Development
by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:48AM
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HN is a self-selecting population of higher=than-median IQ people with specific interests. Outside of that population, skill levels look like this:
https://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/Country%20note%20-%20Unite...
I think you're probably right, but in a strictly semantic way: I think it's feasible that nearly everybody (excluding, say, the severely mentally handicapped) could learn to program to a reasonable level of proficiency, with enough effort. However, most people won't, so it ends up being the same as if most people can't.