{"id":64605,"date":"2024-01-06T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=64605"},"modified":"2024-01-05T09:37:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T14:37:11","slug":"qotd-computer-people-are-just-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/01\/06\/qotd-computer-people-are-just-people\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Computer people are just people&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Not being a computer person myself, I keep forgetting that computer people are just people, meaning they&#8217;re no less silly, cliquish, and fad-chasing than the rest of us. Meyers-Briggs seems like a very short step above astrology to me \u2014 do I <em>really<\/em> need a long questionnaire to tell me I&#8217;m an extrovert? \u2014 but I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that computer people like it. In my experience, &#8220;psychology&#8221; is to computer people what &#8220;computers&#8221; are to psych majors \u2014 randomly blinking ooga booga boxes that do some cool things, but are mostly a terrifying mystery. Liberal Arts people (of which Psych Majors are the most liberal) love Apple products not least because they promise to bury all that blinky ooga-booga stuff under &#8220;the user experience&#8221;; thus it shouldn&#8217;t surprise me that a quick-and-easy &#8220;test&#8221; that promises to unlock the secrets of the psyche appeals to the other sort.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/for-future-historians-benefit\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">-->&#8220;For Future Historians&#8217; Benefit&#8230;&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2021-02-21.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not being a computer person myself, I keep forgetting that computer people are just people, meaning they&#8217;re no less silly, cliquish, and fad-chasing than the rest of us. Meyers-Briggs seems like a very short step above astrology to me \u2014 do I really need a long questionnaire to tell me I&#8217;m an extrovert? \u2014 but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41,15],"tags":[109,139,1462],"class_list":["post-64605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-psychology","tag-severian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-gO1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86598,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64605\/revisions\/86598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}