52.7% software engineers experience frequent-intense levels of imposter phenomenon. Women (60.6%) >> men (48.8%). Asian (67.9%) and Black (65.1%) >> White (50.0%). Less common if married with kids. Guenes et al. at ICSE 2024.

Preprint https://arxiv.org/pdf/...

What about white trash? Me wants me demographics included al'rite

@kobenz they only felt imposter syndrome when the truth social stock crashed

@jeeper what's truth social?

If I was an impostor I would be a bloody poor one. I can't fit through a single bloody vent nor have killed a single bloody person.
There is some legitimate talented devs among us.

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@jestdotty didn't know about it at all but ever since roe v wade was overthrown I've been oozing hatred. He's an offense to life

@jestdotty it took away women's right to abortion in the US

@jestdotty! not everyone's made like you and I, dotty. Picture this: imagine if everyone had the same fucked up upbringing you, or I, had. At least some of them would grow up to be real menaces to society

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this movie has a illegal 12weeks+ abortion scene and it is ghastly
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Not that illegal pills are any better, I mean some coke or MDMT, ok, I don't mind it staying outlawed, but abortion? Shit, women have been aborting since forever, least modern society could do is make it safer as it will continued to happen anyways

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I mean, look at freakonomics, fuck! The amounts that criminality and incarceration rates went down after Roe V. Wade is Guinness worth

@jestdotty the same can be said about meteorology, doesn't mean we shouldn't bring an umbrella to a cloudy day

@jestdotty and then by year's end, we be looking at statistics and, indeed, oh my, it was x% humidity, y% precipitation, damn, weather jimmy, your a mysticist. That was why I ran from economics, they're all lost in ad-hoc while causality isn't really a thing. Shit happens because shit happens. I still think it's the humane thing to give people the freedom to choose instead of choosing for them

@retoor About Black programmers - I have asked the authors of this study and apparently they have explicitly targeted developers in African countries.