It sounds like you're saying that it seems like it should be diagnostic vaguely of "success" or "survival". Perhaps it might have negative values as well. Part

It sounds like you're saying that it seems like it should be diagnostic vaguely of "success" or "survival". Perhaps it might have negative values as well. Part of the trick seems to be to turn off critical thinking for awhile, not reconsidering your assumptions, turning off self-doubt or sounding confident, or being strategically vague. Skills I would value in a salesperson, but not necessarily an engineer. Since all of these ideas are introspective and the output variable is unspecific I don't see a good way to make a decision about the usefulness of this test.