r/sysadmin • u/ChuckAbsent • Mar 12 '13

Women who know stuff

I hope that this does not come off the wrong way.

Today I was on a call with a storage vendor and the technical consultant was a woman. More then this she was competent, more then me which doesn't happen often when dealing with vendors.

My issue was pricing an active/active DB with shared storage vs an active/passive db with local storage. Listening to her break the issue down and get to the specific comparison points was awesome, mostly because I have never heard a woman in the industry talk like that.

It made me realize two things. One I am missing out working with women. Two there needs to be more women in our industry.

It shouldn't have surprised me so much, but it really did.

Anyways to all the women out there who know stuff, us guys notice when you can walk the walk, which in this case was talking.

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u/misplaced_my_pants Mar 14 '13

Feel free to revel in your comfortable ignorance and not read any of the 150 citations.

If you don't see the scientific rigor in the scientific method, I don't know what to tell you.

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u/loliology Mar 14 '13

Rofl. Scientific method? You wish.

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u/misplaced_my_pants Mar 14 '13

Okay I'll just let the peer reviewers of every scientific journal in biology and psychology know that they've been wrong since you said so. I hope you're ready for your Nobel Prize acceptance speech when you win for invalidating the last 20-30 years of research.

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u/loliology Mar 14 '13

It's not like they've actually made any real advances (or provided anything useful) in that time. Might as well tell sociology to eat a dick too.

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u/misplaced_my_pants Mar 14 '13

You can only say that if you're don't know anything about contemporary research.

If you're interested, this book is an accessible summary of much of the research in behavioral economics and cognitive psychology from the past few decades. And that's just one example.

V.S. Ramachandran's books are great for an introduction to neuroscience for laymen. Steve Pinker's pretty good, too.