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> Most good programmers have OCPD.

No, they don't. Attention to detail isn't OCPD.




The two are highly correlated.


All people with OCPD have attention to details, but the reverse isn't true. But most good programmers do not have the other characteristics or OCPD like being “preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost” or “reluctant to delegate tasks or to work with others unless they submit to exactly his or her way of doing things”.


Citations?


Attention to detail is literally one of the four symptoms of OCD.

You're just being deliberately antagonistic. I guess you were triggered?


> Attention to detail is literally one of the four symptoms of OCD.

Correction, it is for OCPD, which is what you suggested upthread; OCD and OCPD are completely different disorders.




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