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I wonder if there's a reason their extremism tends to the conservative. Where are the radical leftist engineers?

• RoboPlumber 10y ago
  Radical leftists are easy to find. Radical leftist engineers are probably hard to find because leftist engineers in general are hard to find.
  • nsxwolf 10y ago
    ... seriously?
    • RoboPlumber 10y ago
      Yes, absolutely. The vast majority of engineers are fairly right-leaning. Some good reading: http://www.businessinsider.com/charts-show-the-political-bias-of-each-profession-2014-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/charts-show-the-political-bia... https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/upshot/your-surgeon-is-probably-a-republican-your-psychiatrist-probably-a-democrat.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/upshot/your-surgeon-is-pr... http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/ http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/ CS is very left-leaning compared to most engineering professions, so if you include CS it throws the overall numbers towards left-leaning, but I personally wouldn't consider general CS to be an engineering field. Certain subfields, certainly, but they're a minority. My uni doesn't even have it in the same department as engineering, so that my inform my opinion there. t. MechE/Aero grad student