My first hackathon; or, gender, status, code, and sitting at the table
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Code culture measures how much you self-perceive to know about code. It's only after a bit of getting to know a person that you can get at their actual levels of competence. If you are in a situation that claims to be a meritocracy, but all claims of merit have to be evaluated in seconds, then it's not a meritocracy, it's a self-confidence-ocracy. Unfortunately, self-confidence can be negatively correlated with talent... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect )
And good point on the "self-perceive to know", and how it's not the same as actually knowing. And, of course, ties in with gender issues itself.
FWIW I never had a whit of impostor syndrome in the context where we met. But code culture, it's weird that way.
Code culture IS weird. And not in a good way. I have all sorts of things I think about this, but I have trouble sorting these things out in any sort of useful way, so I really appreciate seeing others sorting their own thoughts out for me to read. Thanks for saying interesting things!