Got all three, but I'm a massive outlier on these things (statistician and developer, with a keen interest in physics), so they're questions that match patterns

Got all three, but I'm a massive outlier on these things (statistician and developer, with a keen interest in physics), so they're questions that match patterns for the "you need to think about this" trigger in my head. I find I fall over far more on things that hit that trigger needlessly, rather than the other way around (problems that look like I need to think about, but where the intuitive result is the correct one). All things considered, I'd rather have the problem that way around and over-think and lose time needlessly than get the wrong answer more often. However, I'm biased to wanting that to be the best way, so I'm unreliable as to saying to what degree it's a "better" way to think.