> Survey data indicates that engineering faculty at universities are far more likely to be conservative than people with other degrees, and far more likely to b

> Survey data indicates that engineering faculty at universities are far more likely to be conservative than people with other degrees, and far more likely to be religious. They are seven times as likely to be both religious and conservative as social scientists. This statement seems to say as much about the sort of people who don't get non-engineering degrees as it does about engineers. In my experience, people deep into humanities fields—especially the social fields like sociology, anthropology and religious studies—are both significantly self-selected and externally selected. Perhaps even more so than engineers especially in niche fields. This selection has more of a moral, ideological and philosophical component than that for engineering. Put together, there is quite a bit of pressure against people harboring radical religious views in most of the humanities. It's an interesting dynamic to think about. I'm also a bit curious about what exactly an "administrative position in Hamas" entails. My sketchy understanding is that Hamas functions as more of a proto-government than merely a military organization: are they counting any role in Hamas as terrorists?