My level of flashback is "went to an incredibly conservative right-wing Catholic seminar debate-style liberal arts school" so yeah exactly this 😩
I'm looking for good summary citations that include calls for equity-focused, human-centered science on ability/achievement/performance. E.g., work that acknowledges that the history of how we describe "cognitive abilities" has been fraught/harmful and calls for a new equity-focused perspective ?
A more out-there reason, for someone like me with some visibility in tech, there's a nontrivial amount of "copying the way you described this to write a blog and claim to originate the idea" that happens in software commentary "thought leadership" 😅 different kind of scooping but really annoying
In doing applied & community-based work (e.g. I've recruited a lot of people who otherwise do not participate in software research, esp bc the samples in SRE are terribly skewed to all white male), holding some of those analyses quiet to the public I think aids more authentic answering
Yes, very easy (in my applied world where majority of the audience is gen public I don't think anyone even looks at these tho we do them but it's nice as a record) and because I have a public presence it generally helps to cut down on participants pre-knowing what connections you are proposing
I gave a talk at the 2024 Bridges Summit on "Developer Thriving & the Psychology of Innovation," and it's freely available to watch here: tilvids.com/w/4MTECvQsBh... Also really enjoyed using my own personal photos from adventures in hiking to illustrate (in keeping with conference theme!) :)
How could we build an environment where developers, teams, and organizations that support them can thrive individually and collectively? Community discussion led by Cat Hicks at Bridges Summit base...
Just a good observation about so many "we asked people..." conclusions
OH, "validating prejudgments" is exactly what I was thinking. Like it seems to me these papers I've read are using the same analysis for 2 things 1) justifies a causal claim like 'these three things we selected are the drivers of x' and 2) says well given that 3 things->x here is what it looks like