What stereotypes about developers are there?

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I was filling out a Delphi Developer Survey and two questions were asking about developer stereotypes:

Which stereotype about developers do you think is most true?
Which stereotype about developers do you think is least true?

That was a hard one for me to answer. I couldn't even think of very many developer stereotypes to choose from.

What do you think are the most common ones?

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