Comments on: Terrorist engineers http://embeddedgurus.com/stack-overflow/2009/12/terrorist-engineers/ Thoughts on embedded systems by Nigel Jones Sun, 06 May 2012 10:34:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike http://embeddedgurus.com/stack-overflow/2009/12/terrorist-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-485 Mike Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:57:15 +0000 http://www.gfcdev.org/test-stack/2009/12/30/terrorist-engineers/#comment-485 "engineering professors in the US are seven times as likely to be right-wing and religious as other academics" Mmmm....statistics. What is it they say about them? Since, in my experience, "other academics" are to the left of the public in general (to the far left, some would say) I don't find it difficult to accept that engineering professors (hopefully more logical than, say, their liberal arts peers) would be more "right wing". But the obvious insinuation here is that engineering professors are somehow the equivalent of Attila the Hun. That would be a bad conclusion, and typical of the left-wing media! “engineering professors in the US are seven times as likely to be right-wing and religious as other academics”

Mmmm….statistics. What is it they say about them?

Since, in my experience, “other academics” are to the left of the public in general (to the far left, some would say) I don’t find it difficult to accept that engineering professors (hopefully more logical than, say, their liberal arts peers) would be more “right wing”.

But the obvious insinuation here is that engineering professors are somehow the equivalent of Attila the Hun. That would be a bad conclusion, and typical of the left-wing media!

]]> By: Nigel Jones http://embeddedgurus.com/stack-overflow/2009/12/terrorist-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Nigel Jones Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:02:58 +0000 http://www.gfcdev.org/test-stack/2009/12/30/terrorist-engineers/#comment-370 Actually I avoided the Slate article and went to the primary source because it addressed a lot of the issues - including the one that Sparks has raised here. I think if you go back and read the full article, you'll see that they explicitly explored this avenue - and rejected it. Actually I avoided the Slate article and went to the primary source because it addressed a lot of the issues – including the one that Sparks has raised here. I think if you go back and read the full article, you'll see that they explicitly explored this avenue – and rejected it.

]]> By: Sparks http://embeddedgurus.com/stack-overflow/2009/12/terrorist-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-369 Sparks Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:45:35 +0000 http://www.gfcdev.org/test-stack/2009/12/30/terrorist-engineers/#comment-369 It was terribly difficult to not leave a comment on the original article in Slate on this topic that there are more engineers in terrorist attacks for the same reason that there are more armed criminals involved in shooting incidents (than unarmed ones)... It was terribly difficult to not leave a comment on the original article in Slate on this topic that there are more engineers in terrorist attacks for the same reason that there are more armed criminals involved in shooting incidents (than unarmed ones)…

]]> By: DGentry http://embeddedgurus.com/stack-overflow/2009/12/terrorist-engineers/comment-page-1/#comment-368 DGentry Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:27:32 +0000 http://www.gfcdev.org/test-stack/2009/12/30/terrorist-engineers/#comment-368 "...engineering professors in the US are seven times as likely to be right-wing and religious as other academics..."That seems odd to me, though of course I've conducted no formal polls nor research. In Silicon Valley at least, engineers seem to be no more likely to be right-wing and/or religious as the rest of the population. Which is to say, strongly left-leaning and mostly non-religious. "…engineering professors in the US are seven times as likely to be right-wing and religious as other academics…"That seems odd to me, though of course I've conducted no formal polls nor research. In Silicon Valley at least, engineers seem to be no more likely to be right-wing and/or religious as the rest of the population. Which is to say, strongly left-leaning and mostly non-religious.

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