[matthoiland]

Thank you for bringing up WISV-IV – it's a fascinating way to categorize intelligence.

My son (11yo) is autism spectrum and recently received a WISV-IV evaluation and found him off the charts for spacial reasoning. It immediately had me thinking about object oriented programming and conceptualizing digital processes spatially.

Perhaps functional patterns are preferred by those with faster "processing speed" of thought or "working memory" – basically thinking primarily of "just before" and "just after".

My anecdotal experience has shown that the coworkers who think "the fastest" prefer functional patterns, whereas those who think slower but more comprehensively prefer object oriented.

Also anecdotally, functional programmers rarely leave the keyboard, whereas OOP spend a lot of time on the mouse – both are equally productive at the end of the day.

[ryanmarsh]

Yes. I took those tests (and more as I presume your son did) for my ASD diagnosis. It was very enlightening and I feel like everyone should have a psych profile like that done.