Comment by csa
7 days ago
> More than 50% of people employed as software engineers cannot read an academic paper in a field like education, and explain whether the conclusions are sound, based on the experiment description and included data.
I know this was meant as a dig, but I’m actually guessing that software engineers score higher on this task than non-engineers who hold M.Ed. degrees.
Agreed! Probably 3% of software could do it, vs 1% for M.Ed holders.
The only reason I chose software engineers is because I was trying to show that people who can write 'hello world' programs (first example) are not good at all intellectual tasks.