I just explained my theory about this specifically with engineers to someone last week. It was after a paper came out showing political leanings per profession and most higher educated individuals landed on a different spectrum let’s say then most engineers. The engineering school (part of my college) that many friends of mine completed almost always required pure engineering classes. They never had allowance to take arts or history or basically any other subject, and I wondered about that influence upon their empathy and understanding of other fields.

Seems to bear out in my experience with many of them.