Submission + - EEs have a 'terrorist mindset' 5
walterbyrd writes: "I had no idea. But, according to researchers Diego Gambetta, and Steffen Hertog, at Oxford University: engineers have a mindset that inclines them to take more extreme conservative and religious positions."
Submission + - Engineers == terrorist mindset?
whoever57 writes: An article
EE Times, notes a study by two Oxford University researchers — Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog" in which they point to overrepresentaion of engineers in Islamist movements, and especially in violent groups.
The paper's abstract states: "We find that graduates from subjects such as science, engineering,
and medicine are strongly overrepresented among Islamist movements in the
Muslim world, though not among the extremist Islamic groups which have
emerged in Western countries more recently. We also find that engineers alone
are strongly over-represented among graduates in violent groups"
The original paper is here
