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Why is he mixing computer science with programming? Computer science is just a branch of mathematics. It has not much to do with what he talks about afterwards.
> I think women are better programmers because they have less ego and are typically more interested in the gear rather than the pissing contest. People need to stop writing shit like this. If it's not okay to say that men are better programmers simply because of their gender (it's not), then it's not okay to say it the other way around either.
Car insurance companies believe that young male drivers are a bigger risk than older female drivers. They have statistics to back this up. Saying that young, male drivers are worse drivers is not ageist or sexist. This sentence is not judging individuals but a demographic group (i.e. it would be wrong for me to say you are a worse driver than someone else, if I had no proof).
The problem with judging programmers in this way is that it's hard to empirically measure results or to even agree what metrics are good or bad.