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dtdynasty | 1 year ago

> Programmers are much more likely than the general population to have hyper-mobility.

This does not seem intuitive to me. Why would this be the case?

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cjbgkagh|1 year ago

I noticed it in general observationally and later found a generic explanation for it.

I used to do behavioral analytics and noticed that programmers tend to have a distinct clustering of behaviors.

I’m pretty sure it’s the TNXB gene, it’s been overlooked because it’s traditionally hard to sequence but modern sequencing 30x or long reads can find SNPs here. A colleague who has the same rare set of behaviors and interest as me and is also hyper-mobile had found that he has a TNXB SNP combination that should by random chance only occur in 1/10K people, I subsequently did a DNA test and found that I too had the same SNPs. I have since collected more samples from friends and colleagues who are world class in their fields and so far 5 of 5 have had the same TNXB SNPs. It also appears that in reality this combination is much more common than random chance due to sexual selection which should underscore how behaviorally impactful it is.

Hyper mobility is considered a spectrum and a theory that I’m yet to prove is that the spectrum is almost entirely down to the number and type of TNXB SNPs. And it appears that people on this spectrum are more likely to be programmers.

Consider the over representation of transgenderism in programming. That same over representation exists in hyper-mobility and I would suggest this is due to a common cause.

lupire|1 year ago

These conditions (hypermobilty, transgenderism, programming) are all part of the autism cluster.