>It's like you're objecting to someone saying gymnasts are coordinated or air traffic controllers can handle a lot of stress. It's the causation that's interes

>It's like you're objecting to someone saying gymnasts are coordinated or air traffic controllers can handle a lot of stress. It's the causation that's interesting, though: do gymnasts become coordinated through practice, or do the most coordinated people go into gymnastics? I think the OP is arguing the former, and I think I agree. In that case, programming is not unique re: intelligence.