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“Prevalent stereotypes describe software engineers as socially inept introverts that are single-mindedly focused on computers,” writes psychologist Timo Gnambs in the Journal of Research and Personality.
This assertion is likely to set software engineers (and those who love them) yelping in indignation for two possible reasons: the perceived inaccuracy of the stereotype, or the sense that this stereotype is so stale that everyone's tired of hearing about it. But Gnambs decided to do something about it, testing whether there's any association between personality traits and programming.
Gnambs started by looking at the Big Five personality traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. It’s important to note that this set of characteristics is often criticized for not being exhaustive (there are obviously many other dimensions to personality), and also for not having any real basis in a theory that explains why these factors are important, where they come from, or how they interrelate.
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