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Maybe? For example, in terrorist groups, engineers are of obvious usefulness and are directly recruited, interfering with inferences about radicalism.
What we really need here is a controlled experiment :P
This explanation doesn't quite work since many engineers have become suicide bombers. If engineers were being recruited largely for their technical skill one would expect them to be the very last people used in that ashion.