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user-inactivated · 3301 days ago · link · · parent · post: Want to fight ISIS? Get a Liberal Arts Degree
The Gambetta paper, which Gawker doesn't link because Gawker so I will, actually found more than their title claimed; engineers were heavily represented among right-wing terrorists, but not especially common among left-wing terrorists. Their conclusion was that the Right drew people with a need for cognitive closure, as does engineering. If that is true than studying engineering isn't influencing people to become terrorists, people who might be inclined to become terrorists are also inclined to study engineering because they both fulfill the same need.