"make a credible pitch" Exactly, but this is actually a specialization of a more generic feature of what my wife has termed "nerds who can talk". Her backgrou

"make a credible pitch" Exactly, but this is actually a specialization of a more generic feature of what my wife has termed "nerds who can talk". Her background is in psychology, but what she's referring to is the ability to function at a high level socially - or in my case, do a reasonably good impression of an extrovert (yes ... it's tiring!)