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Graduates of elite law schools are mostly "intellectually gifted people who haven't developed very strong technical ability." How do you think most of them would achieve better life outcomes by developing such an ability? Keep in mind that most of them are relatively much better at verbal and social stuff than math.
Yes, that might be a good nontechnical counterpart. I grew up in San Francisco and live in the Bay Area where the wealthy / privileged people tend to be in tech, and my perceptions are correspondingly skewed. I added a footnote linking your comment.
You could include most branches of engineering as well, not just electrical. Or at the very least certain subsets of these branches, e.g., fluid dynamicists in mechanical and aerospace engineering tend to be no different intellectually from physicists, in my experience. (Probably largely because they are basically physicists. Physics as a field has neglected classical mechanics lately, so if fluids are your interest, you won't get a degree in physics.)
Yeah, the reason why I didn't include engineering is that it seems that most engineers are in administrative-like roles in practice, but I'd definitely include the ones who do research and development in the reference class that I had in mind.