Again, this is a White thing as much as a Scientist thing. Scientists liking Barack Obama is probably just a consequence of scientists often being White. I was prompted by this post at Cosmic Variance. Finally, I have to add that I strongly suspect that it is less that scientists are pro-Obama that they are pretty much anti-Bush, and Republicans are associated with Bush.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Barack Obama
Again, this is a White thing as much as a Scientist thing. Scientists liking Barack Obama is probably just a consequence of scientists often being White. I was prompted by this post at Cosmic Variance. Finally, I have to add that I strongly suspect that it is less that scientists are pro-Obama that they are pretty much anti-Bush, and Republicans are associated with Bush.
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It kinda depends on where the scientists work. If they work in academia and are dependent on public funding to an extent, they tend to favor the Democrats. If they work in private industry, they tend to favor the Republicans.
But you have to admit Obama has excellent scientist advisors working on his campaign.
If they work in private industry, they tend to favor the Republicans.
do you have any statistics on this? also, depends on if you count engineers as scientists (since there are so many and they are more conservative).
see here
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2008/06/geologists_are_republicans.php
Not statistics, just what I have noticed based on the large sample size of Scientists/techs/etc I've had conversations with over the years.
So not up to the level of a published scientific paper but more than good enough for a blog.
"So not up to the level of a published scientific paper but more than good enough for a blog."
depends on the quality of the blog.
If the scientists at "Vote for Science" are representative of the scientists in government funded universities, then yeah... I'd agree with that these kind of scientists tend to be for Obama.
(And I do consider engineers to be scientists.)
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Dear Razib: I wonder if engineers are really more conservative than scientists. Many years ago, someone did a study on which presidential candidates engineers voted for. I forget the election. The results were broken down by discipline. The only engineering disciplines to vote conservatively were civil engineers and agricultural engineers. I thought this most remarkable because these two disciplines are most heavily dependent on government largesse. All the other disciplines voted liberal.
sykes.1 said... Many years ago, someone did a study on which presidential candidates engineers voted for. I forget the election. The results were broken down by discipline. The only engineering disciplines to vote conservatively were civil engineers and agricultural engineers. I thought this most remarkable because these two disciplines are most heavily dependent on government largesse. All the other disciplines voted liberal.
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