Asperger's study asks: Are hackers cognitively different?

JMH · Sep 8, 2012

Hackers perceive and experience the world differently than mainstream society, for a lot of reasons. Some people have postulated those reasons may be attributed to neurological conditions, such as Asperger's Syndrome.

Other than interviews with convicted hackers (mostly young men in jail), there has been little psychological study done on hackers. This is not surprising, as anyone attempting to learn about hacker culture from the outside will always be met with a predictable wall of mistrust, misinformation, and the subculture's trademark, guarded secrecy.

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zigzag3143 · Sep 9, 2012

Nice catch thanks.

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Asperger's study asks: Are hackers cognitively different?

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