All generalities are unfair to some extent, it's just how generalities work, so I tend to read them as a quantified statement based on the number of people in t

All generalities are unfair to some extent, it's just how generalities work, so I tend to read them as a quantified statement based on the number of people in the group that the person making the statement is likely to have interacted with. In this case, it seems as if the poster works with scientists on a regular basis, and that is his experience with those he has worked with. That being said, I'll pile on some of my own anecdata in just saying that in school I was split between physics and computer science and my initial approaches towards software development were certainly influenced by some of the thought patterns that the poster was expressing. I've come around on a lot of things, but software developers definitely have a different mindset about software because we develop it. Yes, I'm also aware that I made a general statement about generalities, though I think this one is a mostly correct generality.