The gay - cs link seems overhyped to me. I would sooner believe that it boils down to some kind of sampling bias. Or maybe it comes from… I think, Friedman’s idea? That the most obviously talented people in any given field would be minorities in the field who the larger population of the field is biased against, since of the discriminated population only the brightest and most truly dedictated would stick around.
I mean, I don’t have like… figures, stats, studies on this.
I said ‘In my experience’ for a reason.
Though it is potentially worth noting my experience is a career in software dev, database management, data analytics, being fairly involved in making mods for various video games, knowing various game devs, and even one individual who actually worked at Los Alamos with their advanced CS degree.
Though, that last person probably does not work there anymore, given that trans people are essentially now officially unpersons.
There are techbros, and then there are people who wear programming socks, entirely unironically.
The gay - cs link seems overhyped to me. I would sooner believe that it boils down to some kind of sampling bias. Or maybe it comes from… I think, Friedman’s idea? That the most obviously talented people in any given field would be minorities in the field who the larger population of the field is biased against, since of the discriminated population only the brightest and most truly dedictated would stick around.
I mean, I don’t have like… figures, stats, studies on this.
I said ‘In my experience’ for a reason.
Though it is potentially worth noting my experience is a career in software dev, database management, data analytics, being fairly involved in making mods for various video games, knowing various game devs, and even one individual who actually worked at Los Alamos with their advanced CS degree.
Though, that last person probably does not work there anymore, given that trans people are essentially now officially unpersons.
There are techbros, and then there are people who wear programming socks, entirely unironically.
I’m gay and I’m in CS.