I basically agree with this. On 1, undergrad degrees aren’t a great proxy but particularly the people listed on the LTFF site are all career engineers. On 2, your description sounds like the correct general case, but in a case where non-policy people are questioning the effectiveness of any policy work on the grounds that policy is ineffective, I would expect people who’d worked on it to usually have a brighter view given that they’ve chosen to work on it. 3 is of course up for debate and the main question.)
I basically agree with this. On 1, undergrad degrees aren’t a great proxy but particularly the people listed on the LTFF site are all career engineers. On 2, your description sounds like the correct general case, but in a case where non-policy people are questioning the effectiveness of any policy work on the grounds that policy is ineffective, I would expect people who’d worked on it to usually have a brighter view given that they’ve chosen to work on it. 3 is of course up for debate and the main question.)