[lbo-talk] Engineers and Republican/libertarian bent

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 14:13:11 PDT 2010


Bryan Atinsky wrote:


> Hi all, I know of studies that relate engineering to extremist
> mindsets, but is there any statistics about the number/percentage of
> engineers voting republican/libertarian?
>
> Or is this an old-wives tale?

http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~ngross/lounsbery_9-25.pdf

See the table on p. 33. Engineering/comp. sci. professors are the most Republican / least Democratic of all the disciplines (except business).

Keep in mind this is a sample of engineering professors, not engineers. I would guess private-sector engineers would be even more conservative.

SA



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