\begin{definition}[Definition:Bozo Bit]
The concept of '''bozo bit''' was adopted by the computer industry in the following manner.
The typical stereotype of a worker in the computer software industry is that he (usually male) is limited in his ability to interact skilfully with his colleagues.
In a team of people, there are bound to be clashes of personality. During the course of interactions with one of your colleagues, one of them sticks in your mind for making unhelpful suggestions, or crafting inept designs, or otherwise demonstrating a modicum of stupidity that is likely to become a hindrance to the task in progress.
What can happen is for a team leader, or someone else whose input is influential, to register this person as a bozo, and prejudge every contribution of that person to be worthless. When the bozo is speaking, the listener mentally tunes out the sound of his voice and is instead thinking of something completely different.
Such behaviour is known as '''flipping the bozo bit''' on that person.
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