<p>To clarify on my viewpoint… it’s pretty much what GShine just said. </p>
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<p>First time I’ve ever heard of engineers associated with being religious. Fiscal conservative? (libertarian) Maybe. Social conservative? No way.</p>
<p>I haven’t read the article but I’m thinking it explores a link between engineers and ISLAMIST terrorists… then its no wonder it came out like that.
Most third world Islamic countries have a rather different outlook on education as a whole. In general guys mostly study science/engineering anyway, regardless of whether they like it or not, (or whether they harbor terrorist intentions). If you found a guy doing an English major… he’d basically get a *** is wrong with you? So considering terrorism, it would need to attract the manliest of men (lol), which would naturally fall to engineering/biochem, etc. Just look in any top tier engineering program in the US… you’ll find a larger concentration of Muslim men in engineering… or in business, which seems to be the new trend.</p>
<p>I am an asian myself and let tell you some harsh truths about the quality of education.</p>
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<li><p>Pick the major thats right FOR YOUR PARENTS</p></li>
<li><p>Engineers and Doctors always have jobs and the pay is good</p></li>
<li><p>If the parent are going to spend 500,000 Ruppees lets say in india or pakis, they EXPECT their kid to earn that back. </p></li>
<li><p>Ok soo if you see the lot of ppl applying to those high fi schools ( 112,000 applications to NUST, Pakistan 2007) some may turn out be miscreants. big deal, you have molesters and rapists going to college in America, which substitutes the terrorist in asia.</p></li>
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<p>well its not the matter of religion. A muslim may be liberal but it is highly unlikely. So blaming a single religion is just trying to be dry in water.</p>
<p>I just skimmed through the Political Views section of that paper, and it includes a big shocker: It turns out that engineering majors are disproportionately in favor of religion and religious views when compared to other majors. This is a complete puzzler, because it is a well established fact that fiscal conservatism and social liberalism correlate with intelligence.</p>
<p>The paper includes a table that you can see for yourself. Also, check out the General Sociological Survey for data on IQ and political views.</p>
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<p>It would be interesting to see the breakdown of which religions engineers follow. Catholics are typically more moderate than Southern Baptists, etc.</p>