The programming talent myth

In an attempt to bring some facts to the discussion I did a 5 minute Google search on the topic. It seems like drawing like so many occupations is mostly a matter of practice:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2134898/My...

This is not the only source I found claiming this. From personal experience, I've always believed, that I simply cannot draw, so I've never really tried it either. Until I started doing free hand UI mockups on paper and discovered, that they actually look quite ok. So I wonder, what I could do with a little more practice.

On programming, I really think most programmers are closer to average than to one of the extremes. And team members where I wasn't sure if they would become good programmers have become quite good.