Scientists farther along the autism spectrum compared to humanities and socsci students

I happened to stumble across this blog entry while searching for some informed comparison between wordpress and blogger: http://robothink.blogspot.com/2005/10/empathy-deficit.html.

The entry questions how well suited scientists--particularly biomedical and psychological--are to the task of understanding human emotions and feelings. What actually caught my attention was the apparent connection that was being demonstrated between the scientific mind and autism. It then mentions a study conducted by Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology and co-director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge. The report, entitled "The Autism-Spectrum Quotient: Evidence from Asperger Syndrome/High Functioning Autism, Males and Females, Scientists and Mathematicians" states that

[a]mong [a] group of 840 students, scientists scored significantly higher in autism spectrum traits than humanities and social science students, confirming an earlier study which showed that autistic traits are associated with scientific skills.

I then came across a BBC article that linked the scientific brain to autism.

It's weird how far I've strayed from the original purpose of my google search. Hmm. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it, at least not at the moment. But this certainly got me thinking.