Google fails me now but there was a survey/study that showed most polymaths are ending up in CS or engineering.
All I can find via the google is a harvard business review article by the ifixit guy claiming its common knowledge/everyone knows the above and now boring suits can have this secret knowledge, which is not exactly rigorous proof.
Famously there was a clustering in the 70s where the Venn diagram of hobby photographers, ham radio guys, and home computer guys was ridiculous near perfect overlap. Obviously, the guy wire wrapping a Z80 board carried a Pentax Spotmatic whenever he went outside (that was the thread mount, not the K mount variant, my dad had a spotmatic I had a K1000) and spent the occasional weekend working DX on 20 meters probably CW. If you were wealthy enough to own a floppy drive in 1982 you had a minimum of 3 interchangeable lenses for your SLR and at least two ham radio antennas on your roof. If you had a compuserve account in '84 then you almost certainly were capable of developing your own black and white film. Also you probably either wanted to, or did, sail or pilot general aviation aircraft or both. That's just how it was back in the old days. It all intermixed too, my dad built a large box of SSI TTL logic to implement a timer for his darkroom enlarger, back then that would have been, I donno, a 20 hour project maybe.
I would theorize that whatever genetic "something" makes programmers able to problem solve also makes them polymaths. Or polymaths naturally drift into programming as an easy source of cash.
All I can find via the google is a harvard business review article by the ifixit guy claiming its common knowledge/everyone knows the above and now boring suits can have this secret knowledge, which is not exactly rigorous proof.
Famously there was a clustering in the 70s where the Venn diagram of hobby photographers, ham radio guys, and home computer guys was ridiculous near perfect overlap. Obviously, the guy wire wrapping a Z80 board carried a Pentax Spotmatic whenever he went outside (that was the thread mount, not the K mount variant, my dad had a spotmatic I had a K1000) and spent the occasional weekend working DX on 20 meters probably CW. If you were wealthy enough to own a floppy drive in 1982 you had a minimum of 3 interchangeable lenses for your SLR and at least two ham radio antennas on your roof. If you had a compuserve account in '84 then you almost certainly were capable of developing your own black and white film. Also you probably either wanted to, or did, sail or pilot general aviation aircraft or both. That's just how it was back in the old days. It all intermixed too, my dad built a large box of SSI TTL logic to implement a timer for his darkroom enlarger, back then that would have been, I donno, a 20 hour project maybe.
I would theorize that whatever genetic "something" makes programmers able to problem solve also makes them polymaths. Or polymaths naturally drift into programming as an easy source of cash.