I have been suspicious for a long time it's where you get your 'answers' from..:-D

Albert, what's so surprising about the DVD selection? Forgot where you live?:-$

Народ, кто-нибудь читал про это исследование?
Статья из NYT.

Professor Is a Label That Leans to the Left
By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: January 17, 2010
The overwhelmingly liberal tilt of university professors has been explained by everything from outright bias to higher I.Q. scores. Now new research suggests that critics may have been asking the wrong question. Instead of looking at why most professors are liberal, they should ask why so many liberals — and so few conservatives — want to be professors.
A pair of sociologists think they may have an answer: typecasting. Conjure up the classic image of a humanities or social sciences professor, the fields where the imbalance is greatest: tweed jacket, pipe, nerdy, longwinded, secular — and liberal. Even though that may be an outdated stereotype, it influences younger people’s ideas about what they want to be when they grow up.

Who cannot do - teach!
And then:

- they also join the Teacher's Union
-they never get paid based on merit
- they never have to face a direct opposition
- the more they preach the more they believe in themselves and geta lot of unsubstantiated self respect

This ends up with the self proclaimed dogmas...(N)

Cheers...(D)(D)(D)

********pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/11/29/intellectuals-cannot-operate-at-room-temperature/

"There’s something Eric Hoffer said: “Intellectuals cannot operate atroom temperature.” There always has to be a crisis–some terrible reasonwhy their superior wisdom and virtue must be imposed on the unthinkingmasses. It doesn’t matter what the crisis is..."
So true.

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the class room
Teachers leave those kids alone

Liberal Occupations
Ithink I noticed something about liberal jobs choices: Liberals tend todominate jobs like actor, journalist, and college professors, and onething about all those jobs is there isn’t a real objective way tomeasure whether you’re doing well or not. For a liberal, there isnothing more important than feeling you are smart, and thus it helps tohave a job where you can feel smart and there is no objective measureto tell you otherwise. This is true of college professor especially,where a big part of it is just having everybody think you sound smart —especially in the useless “studies” type subjects.
I wish I could be like that in engineering. I’d just babble on aboutall these neat engineering ideas but never actually make anything thatworks. I like babbling. I wonder if I was a liberal in another life…

From IMAO ( In My Arrogant Opinion)blog by Frank J.(H)

actor, journalist, and college professors, and onething about all those jobs is there isn’t a real objective way tomeasure whether you’re doing well or not.
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I would disagree...

and college professors, and one thing about all those jobs is there isn’t a real objective way to measure whether you’re doing well or not.
Hmm... what do you think professors do? Seriously, how do you imagine yourself that job? Especially those in exact sciences and engineering?
BTW, all of my engineering friends and relatives (who work for a private sector) are liberals. Way more more liberal than I am...