> [...] try teaching programming to a bunch of math majors and a bunch of sociology majors, see how learns more easily. That doesn't necessarily mean that teac

> [...] try teaching programming to a bunch of math majors and a bunch of sociology majors, see how learns more easily. That doesn't necessarily mean that teaching math to people makes them better at programming. It could also mean that the kind of people who major in math (and then don't drop out in the first year) tend to be better at the kind of thinking used in programming than people who go into sociology. It's hard to tell what causes what, and that's what the author is talking about when he says that the matter of skill transfer isn't settled.