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He wasn't doing that at all. His point was that autism skews male and then suggests that the traits of Aspergers make good programmers. It was a comment on why there are more men than women in tech fields. Relevant excerpt below:

"In an earlier post I noted that many software developers I've known have traits of Aspergers. Aspergers is a spectrum disorder; the more severe the symptoms, the closer it is to autism. And did you know that autism skews heavily towards males at a 4:1 ratio?

Interesting. I might even go so far as to say some of those traits are what makes one good at programming."

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He's confusing his correlation, tantamount to saying being a White Protestant are traits that makes one a good President of the United States. That the historical traditions of programming may have selected for those traits does not mean that the traits make one better at programming than others. It may just be that hiring managers came up through that history and select for culture fit based upon their identity.