I'm not qualified to say recommend you do this when hiring or being hired, but, I tend to look at someone's hobbies when judging their analytical skills. Peopl

I'm not qualified to say recommend you do this when hiring or being hired, but, I tend to look at someone's hobbies when judging their analytical skills. People with hobbies that they have invested lots of time in often understand their hobbies' domain space in a very specific way, and can demonstrate their analytical ability when presented with a problem related to their hobby. An example might be to present a photographer with a challenge one how to get a given picture, or a collector with the challenge of spotting a fake, or a rock climber with a particular problem/route. I don't think this really provides a foolproof methodology, but when people have strong extra-curricular domain knowledge, I find that they are often able to answer higher level questions about those areas. This is a good proxy for general analytical ability, and helps get past the problem of testing them on something they may know nothing about, which doesn't really highlight analytical ability at all. The downside to this is that you have to know about their hobby to ask a good question, and you have to put in some effort to ask a good one. This is good, since even casual effort on your part can give a boost to the level of your "test". Source: I am an Analyst, with lots of hobbies. I have found my own hobbies have prepared me very well for being an analyst that deals with multiple subject matters at a time. Note: I am referring to analytical abilities as reasoning, judgement, intuition, etc. Not to be confused with skills in Analytics which refer to math/statistics/data science.