"Programmers can do special things, but the mere act of programming itself doesn't make us special, better than average, or superior to anybody else." I'm not

"Programmers can do special things, but the mere act of programming itself doesn't make us special, better than average, or superior to anybody else." I'm not arguing that it does, but the original statement was that the IQ distribution among programmers is no different from the general population, and I doubt that. I have of course zero proof of this, but since when has that stopped anybody? ;-) It's just a hunch really. I associate programming with "figuring out difficult things", which is more of a pastime that (on average) more intelligent people seem to be attracted to. I am not claiming that this makes anybody "better", nor am I comparing the quality of people in different jobs, or on different educational levels. I'm solely looking at IQ (problematic as that measurement may be... but that is a different story). To put it another way: if programmers had the same IQ distribution as the general population, then half of all programmers would have an IQ < 100. I find that VERY hard to believe. In this profession we like to joke about copy & paste programmers, or maybe PHP/Java/whatever programmers (insert favorite target here), but come on.