Maybe They're Just Not Interested In Academics
A recent study shows that most college professors are liberal.
By their own description, 72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative, says the study being published this week. The imbalance is almost as striking in partisan terms, with 50 percent of the faculty members surveyed identifying themselves as Democrats and 11 percent as Republicans.
So let's say I suggested that maybe the underlying reason for this is that conservatives just aren't as interested in thinky stuff like academics as liberals, preferring instead more lucrative careers in corporate America. Do you think the same people who insist we should be open-minded about suggestions that women just may not as be interested in thinky stuff like science as men wouldn't see my suggestion as prima facie evidence of bigotry against conservatives?
Just askin'.
Comments
I think it would depend on which curriculum the Prefessor teaches in. In my experience, Professors teaching Business and History tended to be more conservative, while those teaching Art related classes were far more Liberal. Of course, your millage may vary.
Posted by: Randy | March 30, 2005 04:07 PM
The liberal professors that bitch all the time are in academia probably because they couldn't make it in the real world. Simple huh?
Posted by: Maddie Dog | March 31, 2005 06:44 PM
Look, up in the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a frog? No, it's the point of the post sailing right over your head.
For those who missed it, I was NOT seriously advancing this as a theory to explain a lack of conservatives in academia. I was poking fun at people who consider discrimination to be the least likely theory to explain the gender gap in a given field, but see the ideology gap as evidence of discrimination (which it probably is, even if it isn't conscious discrimination). The so-called "theory" regarding conservatives not being interested in thinky stuff was sarcasm.
Posted by: Lesley | March 31, 2005 08:49 PM
Um, I'm not sure how to break this to you other than coming right out and saying it. But frogs don't fly.
Posted by: Jon | March 31, 2005 08:55 PM
Rabbit to Duck: Elmer Season
Posted by: Mom | April 1, 2005 03:53 AM