>The first time I read pg's essay about Jessica, it immediately reminded me of my old manager.

Nah, Pauls article didn't talk about results. What was Jessica's hit rate at being right?

Women and men have different degrees of this X-ray vision and it's hard to actually rank someones ability in this automatically.

Often a lot of women are just given these roles by assumption. What did Jessica do to qualify her for this position other then being Pauls romantic partner?