A paper on psychology and programming

A couple of months ago the topic of psychology and computer programming came up in a thread; it was noted there didn't seem to be a lot of work done in the area (iirc). This paper actually has some hard data about novice developers who were given multiple different IQ/psych test then their success in implementing 'knowledge based' systems was measured. Interesting read:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15554396/Knowledge-Based-Systems-A-Study-of-new-Developers

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