/. - Engineers have a Terrorist Mindset?

[petek]

Originally Posted by Molten

I told a friend of mine and he said it was an insult. I just saw it as entertainment. It is just a joke. Whether the writers intend it to be or not, it is a joke and nothing more.

My first instinct was to treat it as a joke or misguided academic pursuit. However, after reading the paper, I have to say the authors raise some interesting points. I don't quite buy in to some of their methodology and as they point out, there is not sufficient hard data to draw absolute conclusions, but in my experience, a lot of what they say about engineers' political, religious and social leanings rings true. In any case, the subject of the paper is anything but a joke and the authors seem to have treated it with enough rigor that it bears thought, even if you don't agree with their conclusions.