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What skill does programming teach you most?   [Edit]

Survey period: 14 Mar 2011 to 21 Mar 2011

Software development endows its practitioners with an interesting set of skills. Which do you feel summarise your abilities best?

OptionVotes% 
Logical thinking71880.67
Naming (you are the human thesaurus)9710.90
Organisation25628.76
Creative / lateral thinking47353.15
Client negotiation10712.02
Seeing problems from all angles44449.89
The ability to think of all worst case scenarios37842.47
A brain that can juggle 20 conflicting concepts at once25628.76
A heightened awareness of one's own Godlike abilities18220.45
Other677.53
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

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