On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 11:11 +0100, Dennis Haupt wrote: > let's call it the "biased experience effect". if there are 20 ways to > solve a problem, and you just know 3 of them, you are a hammer and the > problem looks like a nail. if you have a broader knowledge, you can > pick a more appropriate solution. > what i claim is that if you know NO solutions, the one you'll come up > with will most likely be better than the one you come up with if you > know 3 solutions because you are not biased.
That is clearly a testable hypothesis. Gather some students from music class who have not taken any CS courses and some senior CS students and construct a test. If your hypothesis holds true then it seems that Google's "number of ping pong balls in a bus" test would select for people who cannot program. How very odd. Tim Daly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
