Re: OT: The Geek defense

On 27 Feb, 21:26, tim <T...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:31:39 -0800, Alistair wrote:
On 26 Feb, 21:23, tim <T...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Some have claimed here that programming ability is orthogonal to
personality. From my research and experience this is not the case. For
example, the incidence of autism in the children of Microsoft employees is
so high that MSFT has a special program for autistic children (geeks
breeding with geeks).

1. A defense along the lines of what Hans will do is not necessarily
the same as what a juror would do in the same circumstances is most
likely to convict the client. (IMHO)

You are probably right.

2. Orthogonal means perpendicular. A good programmer, in my
experience, tends to be insular and not particularly social. Autistic
people also tend to insular and unsocial behaviour, My interpretation
of your paragraph is directly opposite of what I perceive you mean.
Could you please rephrase your text such that I can understand your
meaning.

It also has the meaning in statistics of "not dependent on, or not
statistically associated with". Sorry for being obscure.

Some people argued that there is no association between personality type
and ability to program computers. I think there is such an association.


I would agree with you on that. I used to test people using a cut down
version of a Belbin personality profile. If the person came out as a
company-worker/completer-finisher they would make a good programmer.
.

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