That statistical sensibility, combined with the advanced mathematics of aerospace, was a specific and valuable combination.

It was not the most common skill profile among aerospace engineers of the period.

It was one that would have been recognized and valued by the kind of technically sophisticated program she was working in.

The specific ways that combination was deployed in the projects she worked on cannot be fully described from the public record.

But the combination itself is documented — in her educational background, in her pre-Lockheed work, in the technical areas she is known to have worked in.

And the nature of the problems those areas required is understood well enough to say that her skill profile was well-matched to the most demanding aspects of the work.