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Re:Your most important skill: Empathy by felipeerias on Sunday January 19, 2014 @10:38AM (#7084701)
Male technologists tend to be pretty poor at empathising:

http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/articles/note1271-hudson.pdf

"because of low empathizing skills, male technologists will inherently find it difficult to see problems from a user’s perspective. Coupled with the fact that they are excellent systemizers it is not surprising that they do not understand why a system might be confusing to users"

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Re:Your most important skill: Empathy by mferrell on Monday January 20, 2014 @08:48AM (#7089442)
Do you really think that the user's ability to see things from the technologist's perspective is any better?
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