[CapitalistCartr]

The plural of anecdote is NOT statistic. One example of someone using a job bidding site to show their ignorance isn't indicative of anything. On the other hand, many non-programmers writing specs make the mistake of not asking/checking their assumptions. That mistake is not limited to any subset of humans, in my experience.

[dkarl]

There are multiple gulfs of ignorance between geeks and business types, and they don't all go one way. Some of my coworkers and I spent ten minutes trying to decide how to answer a question in an RFI before it dawned on me (thanks to reading an article on HN) that the question was asking whether we would be willing to put source code in escrow. Until that realization, we thought they were asking how geographically distributed the backups of our CVS server were.