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by frgtpsswrdlame 3386 days ago
I wonder if there's a reason their extremism tends to the conservative. Where are the radical leftist engineers?
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Radical leftists are easy to find. Radical leftist engineers are probably hard to find because leftist engineers in general are hard to find.
... seriously?
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