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by pavel_lishin 398 days ago
> In my observations, the average software engineer is more likely to be persnickety, caught up in small details, and obsessive than the average person. We're more likely to split hairs than most people would care to, and proper labeling and categorization is much more important to us than average person.

It sounds like a fancy way of saying that people on the spectrum are more likely to become software engineers than some other arbitrary person.

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It had occurred to me, but I didn't want to say it that way because I'm not a psychological professional and it seems out of my area of expertise to make that assumption based on my passive observations.