I had to put up with these EVIL human beings for the past 15 years after I graduated with an EE degree

I had to be “de-programmed” though use of illegal subtances to realize what vile people these Engineers (and Allopathic MDs) are!

I am not sure about IQ but usually BA gets last preference from students in India, it is considered a timepass and namesake degree.

Herge would be turning in his grave were he to know that he has readers like you. You are breathtakingly cynical and breathtakingly stupid. That’s a a combination guaranteed to lead to self-destruction. Its also probably why the other posters have wisely decided to ignore you. It means they don’t even think its worth their while flaming you. How pathtic is that?

You’re just a sad guy who never grew up. Preeti

That is, extremist right-wing groups.

A nice way of looking at this would be to say that he is willing to go along with the national consensus even when it disagrees with his personal opinions. At worst this can be seen as personal opportunism or hypocrisy. But nothing about this suggests an inordinate faith in one’s beliefs.

Incidentally, I am down with a fever, so was bored enough to read through part of the report, and in all the cases they have good data, engineers are not overrepresented in right-wing groups: they admit that engineers were not overrepresented among Nazis, or neo-Nazis. They seem to be underrepresented (4 out of 10,703) among Italian fascist (so we know all these terroristy engineers are Islamic but not Islamofascists ) . The case they seem to be making, on really iffy data, that there is something special about Islamic extremism that appeals to engineers like nothing has done before. I hope IEEE sues them for libel .

An example: My dad is certainly mod left (economically centrist, socially mod left), and he is extensively opposed to California (and the country’s) pattern of prioritizing prison expansion and incarceration over social spending and higher education spending. However, he’s a structural engineer, and until the last 10 years, his firm was heavily involved in building prisons around the country during the economic recession because it was the only work they could find. While he’s changed his mind since then, at the time he didn’t see this as connected to or related to his political concerns.

That said, I think that application is true in many other fields, as well, I just find it happening more often in engineering where so much of people’s research money comes from defense, etc., that it seems more normalized.