@scholrlea said in Programming Memes Thread:
@gurth Uhm... they're all the same skull, except the last one. That's sort of the point. The second to last one wasn't edited quite right (hence the divot in the jawline), but that's not relevant here.
And no, it isn't technically correct (there is correlated variation between the sexes, and some variation correlated to race and ethnicity, and even variation correlated to one's economic status during childhood due to differences in nutrition and health care), but given that the whole point of the original image macro was to point out that the differences aren't significant (the caption for the last one was something like "People who think there is a difference"), it would have undermined the point to use different skulls each time. Consider it hyperbole.
Mind you, this is also a case where total variation within groups is greater than the correlated variation between them, so using multiple skulls would just muddy the water anyway.
I saw it more that he knew that the truth undermined his point, or else he didn't even care. So I read it as one of those occurrences where the point someone is trying to make is different than (or even the opposite of) the one he actually made. Though it may be true that there are greater differences within sexes, the differences, I suspect, are not on the relevant criteria. There are particular differences between the skulls of men and women, which are significant enough that I doubt the intrasex differences exceed the intersex differences. So, in sum, the creator of the picture fits the last skull more than a VB.Net developer does.
Of course, if we are regard it just as a joke, rather than a point, then the above is irrelevant.