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Othering and Projection: Chinese is confusing vs. Chinese are confused
March 2, 2011 — Restructure!In English, a person says, “It’s all Greek to me,” when they do not understand the words of someone else. In Greek, when a person does not understand, they say it sounds like Chinese. Many languages have an expression that names another language as epitome of unintelligibility. It turns out that in a directed graph, most languages converge on Chinese as the unintelligible language.
This is understandable. Chinese writing, especially Traditional Chinese, is very visually complex. Chinese characters are logograms, which makes learning how to read Chinese difficult.
However, there is a difference between finding Chinese writing confusing and alleging that Chinese people are confused.
Male IT geeks tend to think they are “low status” males.
February 1, 2010 — Restructure!Why are male IT geeks less successful in attracting women than other males, on average? Why are there few women in IT?
Among male geeks, a popular explanation for both these phenomena is that women avoid “low status” males, because women are programmed by evolution to have sex with men in exchange for men’s material resources.
Men in IT are paid more than women in IT.
November 3, 2009 — Restructure!Women IT professionals earn 13% less than men IT professionals, according to BCS. In other words, men in IT are paid 15% more than women in IT.
(Note that the Y axis does not start at £0.)
(Via The F-Word via Geek Feminism Blog)
Biology and math do not explain why there are few women in computer science.
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