WASHINGTON -- Oh, well, if studies say so. The great secret is out: liberals dominate campuses. Coming soon: ``Moon Implicated in Tides, Studies Find.'' One study of 1,000 professors finds that Democrats outnumber Republicans at least seven to one in the humanities and social sciences. That imbalance, more than double what it was three decades ago, is intensifying because younger professors are more uniformly liberal than the older cohort that is retiring.
Another study, of voter registrations records, including those of professors in engineering and the hard sciences, found nine Democrats for every Republican at Berkeley and Stanford. Among younger professors, there were 183 Democrats, six Republicans.
But we essentially knew this even before The American Enterprise magazine reported in 2002 of examinations of voting records in various college communities. Some findings about professors registered with the two major parties or with liberal or conservative minor parties:
Cornell: 166 liberals, 6 conservatives.
Stanford: 151 liberals, 17 conservatives.
Colorado: 116 liberals, 5 conservatives.
UCLA: 141 liberals, 9 conservatives.
Pacridge said:Hum, educated people tend not to be conservatives. Yeah, that makes sense.
Mr.America said:There have been recent studies out, that I read about a few months ago, saying that the areas that guniuses lack skill in is critical thinking. This means that even the most intellegant people in the world have a hard time understanding politics. :boom
Really, when you get down to it, it's all about common sense. Which is why we're running out of oil in this country. Nobody checked our oil level. See most of our oil is in California, Texas and Alaska and all our dip sticks are in Washington D.C.vauge said:I always thought it was the genuises that lacked common sense. And common sense has nothing to do with REAL politics.
Most of politics is human interpetation of a reaction or statement.
Pacridge said:There are studies that show genuises lack skills in "critical thinking?" Who did these studies? Where have they been published? If intelligent people can not understand politics, does that mean only idiots can comprehend them? Somehow the logic of your post escapes me.
I'm not taking you for an idiot. I'm taking you to task. If you make statement like "studies show" you really should quote, at a minimum, who did the study. When possible it's nice to have a link to the study so others can go read the data. This way people can verify that what you're saying the data says is actually what it says. I'll give you an example.Mr.America said:Do you take for an idiot? Why do you always question my word? I rarely make false accursations, then again, why should I trust your judgement, you are just an idiotic liberal. (I don't really thing you are idiotic, I'm just trying to get a point across).
It's not personal. That is what debating is all about. Everyone has an opinion, if we can prove with some stats that our opinion is the only one that makes sense - then we just might convince or be convinced.Mr. America said:Why do you always question my word?
About time.And I guess at this point I might be willing to own the liberal label
Well if there's only going to be two options. I'm still not joining either party.vauge said:It's not personal. That is what debating is all about. Everyone has an opinion, if we can prove with some stats that our opinion is the only one that makes sense - then we just might convince or be convinced.
About time.
Howdy! :wcm Can I have some?mtnSnail said:The wave of change is flowing through this country and a new voice will be heard that opens the consicousness of the masses to awaken to this moment and realize that we can live harmoniously together and in right relationship with everything around us.
Indeed, I hope you are right.mtnSnail said:The wave of change is flowing through this country and a new voice will be heard that opens the consicousness of the masses to awaken to this moment and realize that we can live harmoniously together and in right relationship with everything around us.
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