That alone eliminates >60% of the population. My guess, from having worked professionally in the field for 15 years (and having done it compulsively now for 50) is that it takes an IQ of maybe 1 std above the mean to be decent and 2 std above the mean to be good at it. Another aspect is that it takes IQ type intelligence to be tolerable in programming. It just doesn’t make sense to them, like critical English analysis doesn’t for me. But many of those in the humanities in particular, and also some social sciences, seem to struggle to learn just the basics. Interestingly, a lot of music majors also seem to have the right type of mind too. It takes a logical, numerical, sort of mind, that you find in much of STEM and business. The absurdity of the Learn To Code mantra is that it really isn’t something that everyone can just sit down, take a class, and learn to do. ![]() A process that can’t do better than any of the leading Democratic contenders or McCain, for that matter, seems beyond repair. I’m not really advocating some sort of license to commit politics. How many of the above would have been invited for a first round interview if they were applying for some sort of executive job? Although I’ve worked with electricity for more than 50 years, I can’t be employed as an electrician because I don’t have a license, this is supposed to protect the public. Truman was only successful as a politician but had a little more real world experience than Kennedy and Carter that were junior Navy Officers. Bush-41 is sort of an outlier, not a politician but a sort of hanger on. Then we had others with accomplishments in the real world Eisenhower, Reagan, Bush-43 and Trump. Going back to WWII, we’ve had Presidents that were never anything but politicians Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Clinton, Obama and now probably Biden/Harris. One isn’t required to run an airline however.Ī combination of ignorance and arrogance perfectly sums up most politicians in both parties. “It is like someone who has never flown an airplane or studied the subject…and who thinks airplanes fly by flapping their wings…seeking *and quite possibly getting* a job as an airline pilot.”įor now, this is precluded by the requirement of an Airman’s Certificate. We may find out, although hopefully the Senate will provide some degree of sanity check.Ĭategories Economics & Finance, Energy & Power Generation, Tech In my post about Biden’s learn to code comment, I said:Ĭan you imagine what these people would do to the economy if they ever achieved the degree of power that they so avidly seek? Much offshoring of programming work is taking place…see my post about telemigration…and automation of programming work, which has been happening since the introduction of assemblers and compilers in the mid-1950s, is ongoing. There is not an infinite demand in the US for entry-level programmers. ![]() We’ll pay for it, and you’ll get millions of people to sign up for that. Give them the tools, six months, you’re going to become a computer coder. (Does Biden think that coal miners stoke furnaces?…That stoking furnaces is a big factor in today’s job market?)Ĭomes now Obama associate Rahm Emmanuel, with precisely the same advice to unemployed retail workers. I critiqued this ridiculousness in my post Shovel That Code. In early 2020, Joe Biden advised coal miners facing unemployment to learn to code, saying:Īnybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well… Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!
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