Whenever, in my profession, I have dealt with people, the most intelligent and easy to do business with were people from the legal and finance professions. You just use words with them.
Yes, this is different than doing science or engineering. In the legal profession there aren't a lot of diagrams or equations to deal with - you just express your opinion based on what you have seen work in the past. That's a much simpler wold. I'm not sure about finance, but I suspect there is a lot of BS to get money for startups, etc. Now, you have people posting here who are nothing more than a tangled agglomeration of opinions, delusions and outright ignorance. It's just fun and bliss for them.
On the other hand it's really tough to bullshit your way through the equations that are required in the physical world. You have marketing people selling vapor-ware to investors and a gullible public with no real critical thinking skills. My strong view is that somewhere in our educational system, we need to stress critical thinking skills. If it's in STEM, great, but it could be done in the humanities as well.
From a personality standpoint, most engineers don't like BS and opinions; they want rock-solid facts and, yes, diagrams if the other party is not being clear. Bullshitters like Mq think they are so much smarter than liberals with their soft-belly opinion and theories. <g>
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