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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] In my experience engineers struggled in law school, but math, econ, and hard science majors did not, for whatever reason. [/quote]

I think it has to do with a very literal way of thinking without a lot of lateral thinking. I've had cases with engineers as witnesses and clients, and it took me a while to figure out that, while they would answer my questions very directly and thoroughly, they weren't adept at realizing when maybe I wasn't quite understanding enough to ask the right questions. I recall a case where I'd been all over the problem with my engineer witnesses. And, almost in passing, I said, "we could settle this thing if only we could do X." And they pretty immediately told me, "Oh, doing X is easy...." and then started diagramming how it could be accomplished. I hadn't thought to ask directly about X and they hadn't thought to volunteer it as an alternate solution. (I can't even remember exactly what X was -- something about emergency overflow routing.) [/quote]

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