On: Hacker News is a social echo chamber

[yummyfajitas]

The author's sole example is incorrect. Paul Graham did not dismiss any peer reviewed research. The original article provided no argument (peer reviewed or otherwise) asserting that natural born programmers were a myth - the cited research merely argued that the belief in natural born programmers was harmful. Paul Graham gave an anecdote explaining why he believed in natural born programmers.

[spindritf → yummyfajitas]

Exactly. I hate when people do that -- cite an argument that got torn to shreds as if it was widely accepted.