Edit: It's important to note though that this might be just another attempt by psychologists to paint technical folk as lacking empathy. Usually people who mak

Edit: It's important to note though that this might be just another attempt by psychologists to paint technical folk as lacking empathy. Usually people who make such claims lack empathy themselves. What @ilostmykeys is saying is probably based on personal experience, which matches up with my own. Similarly I've found low empathetic people are much more likely to enjoy calculation-based tasks, not just pure mathematics but video games, and video games like "The Witness," min-maxing and competitive numbers games like starcraft, dota, league of legends, etc. A high-empathetic person can have great difficulty initially understanding why anyone would enjoy playing these games, it's difficult to explain, but when compared with real life video games/simulations feel like a void, there's very little to actually connect with, and in effect it feels like you are doing very little (even if you are making great efforts).