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Re:Natural born programmers by silentbicycle on Friday October 11, 2013 @10:49AM (#6533444)
Sure. The error in your reasoning is that you greatly mischaracterize his point, which is that the concept of the natural-born "10x programmer" is quite destructive.
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Re:Natural born programmers by yummyfajitas on Friday October 11, 2013 @10:54AM (#6533489)
How did I mischaracterize it? From my post: "The article provides lots of evidence that women react badly to this belief..."

Do you disagree that the original author characterizes the belief as false, in addition to destructive?

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Re:Natural born programmers by silentbicycle on Friday October 11, 2013 @11:13AM (#6533620)
The effect is not specific to women. The paper he linked is, but it also has a bibliography.

I'm not wasting any more time debating this with you. Cheers.

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