How odd. There is a meme in engineering circles that people who don't study math or science are somehow less able to think and reason. I wasn't aware of the sort of inverse you posit.

My personal experience on this is extremely lopsided: it's rare for me to encounter a non-techie who doesn't fawn embarrassingly at me when I tell them what my academic background is (physics) or gush over how smart and good at math I must be, etc., while on the other hand I hear from engineer peers all the time about how non-techies are dumb, incompetent, play politics, etc.