On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:39:03 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:23:55 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> 
>>> Hmm. Point taken. But, then, I also tend to forget that not everyone
>>> necessarily took even the basic psychology course I did in college
>>> either, which covered at least bits of it too.
>> 
>> Question of putting yourself in the shoes of someone with a different
>> set of life experiences. :-)  I never took any psychology classes in
>> college, my focus was engineering and then computer science.
>> 
> Now... There is an irony. My CS degree was the one that "required" a
> basic course in psych. lol

That is ironic. ;-)

And I can see the benefit of taking a psych course for CS majors - 
teaching geeks how to interact with people and understand how people 
tick. :-)

Jim

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