[bryanlarsen]

Muslim engineers are also more likely to become extremists than other muslims.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/1...

The authors posit a couple of potential reasons. I'd also add a tendency to see the world in black-and-white.

[frgtpsswrdlame]

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

[RoboPlumber]

Radical leftists are easy to find. Radical leftist engineers are probably hard to find because leftist engineers in general are hard to find.

[nsxwolf]

... seriously?

[RoboPlumber]

Yes, absolutely. The vast majority of engineers are fairly right-leaning.

Some good reading:

http://www.businessinsider.com/charts-show-the-political-bia...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/upshot/your-surgeon-is-pr...

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