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Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them ... by bvttf on Thursday August 30, 2007 @07:49AM (#48187)
His point was that female programmers aren't superior to male ones. Remember he quoted "women are better programmers because they have less ego". Which is a huge load on both counts.
Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them ... by Tichy on Thursday August 30, 2007 @07:58AM (#48190)
Replying to that by "no, men are better programmers than women" doesn't seem the way to go. Especially in response to a rant about faulty statistics skills. That argument with 99% whatever certainly was extremely faulty (I can't even begin to describe how faulty, it is just waaaaaaay off). It just goes to show that some carefulness with statistics would be a good idea. Anyway, that response basically proved the point of the article.