[gotaquestion]

I think this skews toward programmers.

30+ questions and everything was a composition of shift, rotate, and, or, nand, nor, xor.

If you're a programmer it's just a matter of figuring out what operations are used. If you're not a programmer, you probably have no language to describe the relationships, and therefore can't just zip along looking for common assembly-language instructions.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I bet I could make an increasingly challenging logic puzzle generator just by increasing the number of composite operations and operands. I bet if I googled I could find a dozen such projects that already exist. My work here is done. :)

[db_admin]

Alternatively, you may say that programming is skewed towards people that find it easy to operate in a world of logic. We all know that programming can be like a puzzle and you sometimes have to keep a lot of conditions and dependencies in your head to solve the current problem.

Others may lack the formal language, but I don't see an inherent disadvantage in that. You can play music without knowing the notes.