The Human Factor in Software Engineering

When I was 14, I was a freak because I sometimes spent some hours in front of a computer screen writing computer programs, designing stationary and writing letters. Today, this is normal work.

When I was 25, I was a freak because I met new people online in chat rooms and also met them at chatter parties. We had fun, but we were freaks.

Nowadays, people stare at a computer screen day and night, first thing in the morning, last thing before they sleep. While they walk or eat or talk, they are reading or typing. They tell strangers their sexual preferences or publish family videos. But it is not considered to be freaky. Now, it is freaky to be away from computer and internet for a few hours.

And people not even realize how they changed so completely.

The Implicit Social Attitude tests can measure your attitudes, not based on your self-judgement, which usually is strongly biased. Instead, the test principle is based on measuring how fast you answer to questions. When you are biased, you can answer some questions faster than others. Here, you find the test about gender bias. Further such tests are available here.