An anonymous reader writes "Do engineers have way of looking at the world, which isn't all that different from terrorists? According to Researchers say EEs have a terrorist mindset, in EE Times, they do. The story cites "Engineers of Jihad," a paper (pdf download) by two Oxford University sociologists, who found that graduates in science, engineering, and medicine are strongly overrepresented among Islamist movements and that engineers, specifically. are strongly over-represented among graduates who gravitate to violent groups. Authors Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog chalk this all up to what they call the "engineering mindset," which they define as "ia mindset that inclines them to take more extreme conservative and religious positions." Isn't this just pop psychology masquerading as science? Doesn't it give engineers a bad name, and make you angry enough to want to hit somebody?"
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