LOLOLOL! I am married to an engineer, the daughter in law to an engineer and mother of 2 engineers. You may have hit on the reason that you seldom find engineers in elected office. They are often not good politicians, or people persons.
Oh my, I’m granddaughter, daughter and mother of engineers, with grandchildren showing the traits. They might as well have been issued pocket protectors at birth. Such hyperfocus, such a narrow concept of logic, such cluelessness.... Lovable, though, if you have a sense of humor.
I, too, am married to an engineer, and I can see some of that. The husband has the heightened ability to focus and ignore everything but the task at hand. This is almost always great but, in some situations, I have found it irritating. Over the years, I have come to understand how deeply it is seated in who he is. He is a solid, decent man, extremely hard working, and an incredible problem solver.
His father was also an engineer but very much a charmer and very empathetic. My husband loves to chat people up the way his dad did, but it just does not come naturally to him the way it did to my FIL.
Yipes! Sorry for the highjack here.