121 sats \ 1 reply \ @freetx 6 Aug
Interesting correlation: The more the subject matter deals with physical reality, the greater the occurrence of conservative thought.
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exactly
what is a professor of religion? Christianity is evil, Islam is misunderstood, Judaism supports is conniving?
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Is this study about all US teachers?
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college and university professors by department
Engineering is the outlier
around 5100 surveyed
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I'm not familiar with American educational institutions, but the study mentions 'Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty'. Does this represent all colleges and universities?
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I doubt it
I haven't seen the study and I don't know which colleges and universities were sampled.
I can't tell if they only surveyed professors with tenure.
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My sample of 8,688 tenure track, Ph.D.–holding professors from fifty-one of the sixty-six top ranked liberal arts colleges in the U.S. News 2017 report consists of 5,197, or 59.8 percent, who are registered either Republican or Democrat. The mean Democratic-to-Republican ratio (D:R) across the sample is 10.4:1, but because of an anomaly in the definition of what constitutes a liberal arts college in the U.S. News survey, I include two military colleges, West Point and Annapolis.
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5100 number is incorrect
Sample was 8688 tenure track professors which means they skew younger.
Professors with tenure are older, over 50 years
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