Common Cultural Stereotypes

Common Misperceptions: Computer science focuses on:

• surfing the Web
• playing games
• hacking

Common Misperceptions: People in the computing field:

• have few [constructive] social skills
• work in solitary environments
• have little interest in applications that can help humanity
• have few [positive] ethical or social concerns (e.g., sending spam is fine)

created 4 March 2008 last revised 6 March 2008

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