Ok, so I wasn't completely on target about ALL programmers failing deception tricks. Nonetheless, it seems true that autism/asperger's works against deception...Why? Because people with autism assume that all people have access to the same information (one reason why there is no reason to talk to other people). They don't differentiate among people, assuming we're all carrying the same stuff in our heads. Programmers, as a geeky friend of mine tells me, may be ok at figuring out some deceptions, since that's inherent to the trade.
British autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen says that inability to deceive is linked to deficits in inferring others' thoughts and intentions or what he calls theory of mind. I've noted possible problems with this model in previous blogs.
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