Math Olympiad Champion::Great Engineer as Excellent Sentence Diagrammer::Great Writer. Puzzles are fun, but it's best not to put too much predictive faith in t

Math Olympiad Champion::Great Engineer as Excellent Sentence Diagrammer::Great Writer. Puzzles are fun, but it's best not to put too much predictive faith in them, because otherwise you're just affirming the consequent. Exceptional individuals are quite likely to be good at puzzles, but you cannot (in my experience) assume that because someone is good at puzzles, they have actual skill in solving real-world problems. I've worked with too many counterexamples.