It works for "systems" thinkers rather than "goals" thinkers. Easier to apply a system than try to reform every habit of eating constantly. I suspect engineers

It works for "systems" thinkers rather than "goals" thinkers. Easier to apply a system than try to reform every habit of eating constantly. I suspect engineers and the like are disproportionately the former. (See Scott Adams for a description of the systems/goals dichotomy).