On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:00 PM, <SergioL652 at aol.com> wrote:
> I guess I am an aberration
>
> Sergio Lopez
> MSCE
>
>
> In a message dated 3/16/2010 8:05:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> wsoko52 at gmail.com writes:
>
> Chuck G. is right. There small businessman mentality seems to be the
> root cause of conservatism of many engineering types. I would also add
> another factor: cognitive rigidity an intolerance of uncertainty and
> ambiguity that creates emotional need for control and certitude. Many
> engineers (including my old man) seem to have that trait - that is perhaps
> what attracted them to engineering in the first place (the more creative
> and
> free-thinking types tend to gravitate toward arts, humanities and
> social/behavioral sciences.) From that, there is only a small step to
> embrace an ideology that professes "law and order" which in this country
> happens to be conservative but elsewhere (eg. former Soviet bloc) can be
> communist.
>
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