Push Play - Ginny Ghezzo

Ginny Ghezzo's Personal Blog ... testing 1, 2, 3

Saturday, June 30, 2012

I love Achievements

In a family of geek, nerds and dweebs, we love game achievements, from mustaches on zombies to hats on heavies, we are addicted

So to my surprise and pleasure I just found that Jazz.net now has achievements in the form of badges:  
https://jazz.net/forum/badges/

Badge Description
Citizen Patrol  First flagged post
Civic Duty  Voted 300 times
Cleanup  First rollback
Critic  First down vote
Disciplined Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher
Editor First edit
Enlightened  First answer was accepted with at least 10 up votes
Famous Question  Asked a question with 10000 views
Favorite Question  Question favorited by 25 users
Good Answer  Answer voted up 25 times
Good Question Question voted up 25 times
Great Answer  Answer voted up 100 times
Great Question ( Question voted up 100 times
Guru Accepted answer and voted up 40 times
Necromancer Answered a question more than 60 days later with at least 5 votes
Nice Answer  Answer voted up 10 times
Nice Question  Question voted up 10 times
Notable Question  Asked a question with 2500 views
Organizer First retag
Peer Pressure  Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower
Popular Question  Asked a question with 1000 views
Pundit Left 10 comments
Scholar First accepted answer on your own question
Self Learner  Answered your own question with at least 3 up votes
Stellar Question Question favorited by 100 users
Strunk & White Edited 100 entries
Student  Asked first question with at least one up vote
Supporter First up vote
Taxonomist Created a tag used by 50 questions
Teacher Answered first question with at least one up vote

Friday, June 29, 2012

Women Make Men Dumb

As a women in a male dominated* field, I think about how my gender effects other's perception of my performance and potential.   In general I often come to the conclusion that gender in IT is a wash**.

This study (which I have not read) and this article (which I did), made me ask two questions :
  1.   Does the effect of women on men fade with familiarity?   or How quickly does the effect fade?  (In the study, the men knew nothing more then the name of the observer) 
  2.   Do men notice the 'cognitive impairment', either consciously or unconsciously?   If they do, does that make them enjoy working with men more?  

* "Male Dominated" : Is IT Sexist?   I don't believe it is.   My statement of male domination is based on more STEM male graduates and that most luminaries in the IT world are male.   I find IT gender neutral overall.
** I see both benefits and drawbacks.   On the whole all of them are overcome through good business practices and hard work or worst case a Honey Badger don't care attitude.