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Would you call that meritocrat, to ask vocabulary questions to software engineers, given that they know that men will do much worse on them?

My verbal scores happened to be better than my math scores on both the SAT and the GRE, so I'd be all for this! Someone did a study in the 80's that suggested that programmers had to do more interaction involving details than other jobs. Good verbal abilities are going to help out, in my view.