On: Natural born programmers

[silentbicycle]

Before writing the post off with a logical fallacy, perhaps you should consider the biases inherent in doing so, and whether they are distorting your reasoning: http://plover.net/~bonds/bdksucks.html

[yummyfajitas → silentbicycle]

If my reasoning is incorrect, you should have no trouble finding the error and replying with it.

Or feel free to cite applause points and declare victory. HN is still smart enough to see through such nonsense, though it does get worse every day.

[silentbicycle → yummyfajitas]

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.

[yummyfajitas → silentbicycle]

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?

[silentbicycle → yummyfajitas]

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.