Anecdotal evidence inbound. I know I am a very visual thinker. When given a box of parts I can visualize how they fit together in my head. I can take things ap

Anecdotal evidence inbound. I know I am a very visual thinker. When given a box of parts I can visualize how they fit together in my head. I can take things apart and put them together different ways without actually touching them. It took me a long time that not everyone thinks that way; and it was the source of a lot of frustration for me that people wouldn't get what I was saying. I don't know if it makes visual thinking a geek gene, but it certainly does help in reasoning about problems. You can treat a lot of software as a set of mechanical problems versus abstract ideas. If you can flip a picture of something around in your head, it makes it easy to see if something will work or not; you know immediately if the parts won't fit.