The stereotypes are an “easy” and “toxic” way of grouping and split the people, we can find it in every society and it is extended to the professions.  The IT field it is not the exception, in fact, the IT workers profile don’t fit in many of classic “supposed to be” and being realistic, the stereotype is so far to be true, you should read this interesting article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Profile of an IT Worker” (https://www.wsj.com/articles/profile-of-an-it-worker-1382128556).