From: Michael Campbell Date: 2004-06-09T04:34:27+09:00 Subject: Re: Unit tests ... not just for the young > Some of the best programmer's I've had the pleasure of working with had > degrees in music. > > Maybe there's a hidden relationship there! :-) Not hidden at all; I don't have the link handy, but there was a study done by Arthur Andersen years ago that showed a very high correlation between success at "high logic" jobs (mathematician (et. al; statistician, logician, etc.), computer science, engineering, and so forth) and musical aptitude/training. Too, and this might be urban legend, but I've read that the only fields that have shown quantified "idiot savants" are mathematics and music.