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?

@kobenz trump went on there (Twitter alternative, evidently he got banned on Twitter right after his presidency?) then all his MAGA supporters went there

then they banned the app from the app store or something

then trump made billions off the fact the stock of the app went up so much due to all the controversy

I don't have an issue with trump, he seems sincere. but people hate him a lot so insult anyone into him, hence calling them trailer trash

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.

Where do all the black programmers come from in this research? I never see them, they're like an unicorn.

Less common when married with kids. Ffs. Guess what, depression is less too when married with kids. You have other things to think about.

It's llike people with no sex become more racist. Not only a hat, theyre probably a lot more regarding negative things. Probably jew hating too.

Fun fact: they are freaking imposters. When I worked ten years ago there were only people who loved being a nerd. Now it is mainstream and it got weak

@JsonBoa yh, there's some talent among us because it's not just a platform for complainers but actually people who give a fuck

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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.