Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal?

Micawber said:
Second thought here, the reason the STEM and technical skills lead to employment has zero to do with the rarity of the skillset,
it is valued because it is seated lower to the base in the hierarchy of human needs. That doesn't mean a civil engineer has anything upstairs
that a great novelist or painter does not possess. In fact, you would more likely school up that novelist to be an engineer than the reverse.
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It goes both ways. I went to undegrad with a guy who was absolutely brilliant in the sciences after getting his history degree - all A's in the prerequisites before going to med school. Reinforces your premise.
Then I have a neighbor who is a physician, plays cello and/or violin in the Anchorage Symphony and regularly competes in local triathlon events and is always a top 3 - 5 finisher overall for the ladies. Then in winter she competes in cross country ski races. (She's 35 or 36.) Also has two little ones. No idea how she finds the time for all this :gpow:
Edit: wife says she fills in when needed with the symphony.
 
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Micawber said:
Somewhere gathering dust I have a book by Kant. Prolegomenon to some thing something metaphysics whatnot.

He makes it hard. I can't chew through any of it.
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Are you sure it isn't by Kunt, that would be far more appropriate. Just to give you folks an idea as to just how fucking stupid this Kunt is really. One time I told him that I had a degree in pure chemistry, but the fuckwit said that there was such thing. Apparently he was unaware that you can take degrees in either pure or applied chemistry, truly ignorant fuckwit.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-the-difference-between-pure-applied-chemistry.html
 
Micawber said:
I think it depends where your strengths are. I am someone who has a good bit of both and for me, you are correct.
I am very verbal and consequently essentially a straight A "humanities" undergrad. And not very good at math
therefore gots Cs in Chemistry, Computer Science, Calc. Oddly I was an A physics student, but that was family business,
so I had baked in info.

I think most important is what you enjoy, and that will determine if you become good and get paid for whatever the it is.

How about music. Some very interesting minds have an understanding that most of either bent cannot obtain.
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That is because math is logic. If you are poor at logic you will be poor at math. Truth. I liked Physics because it explained physical properties in mathematical terms.
 
Truth Detector said:
Why would I lie about that? My bet thread has been up since June. I would suffer major embarrassment if I am wrong. I am not worried; I am sure a geriatric, dimwitted corrupt dementia laden fool like Biden can't win.

I am amused that this is the best the Party of the Jackass could do out of 30 candidates. :laugh:

Take the bet! Grow a pair! Back your phony bullshit up! https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...berals-are-strongly-encouraged-to-participate
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A pair of what?
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
My point is that blanket statements like "people with STEM degrees are conservative" are not true. Some are (you) and some are not (some of my family). Smart ppl like yourself know that.
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I never said ALL STEM students are conservatives. But the majority of Liberals pursue Liberal Arts Degrees and the majority of conservatives pursue STEM degrees.
 
Havana Moon said:
Are you sure it isn't by Kunt, that would be far more appropriate. Just to give you folks an idea as to just how fucking stupid this Kunt is really. One time I told him that I had a degree in pure chemistry, but the fuckwit said that there was such thing. Apparently he was unaware that you can take degrees in either pure or applied chemistry, truly ignorant fuckwit.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-the-difference-between-pure-applied-chemistry.html
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Never did I say that. I did, however, note that it was conferred before 40 of the most recent elements were in the periodic table, old dude.
 
Micawber said:
I think it depends where your strengths are.
I think most important is what you enjoy, and that will determine if you become good and get paid for it.
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True. However I have a friend that has self published at least 25 books on Amazon that get mostly 5 star reviews from the few who have discovered his writing. He makes very little money from it. Lives in his own cloud . In San Diego BTW. Works as a physiology and anatomy prof.
 
Dark Soul said:
Another 2 or 3 years and I'll retire from a lucrative 40 year career- yeah, it's too late.

I took the EIT 11 months before graduation. I was able to set aside two hours the night before to study for it, and luckily I passed. That was a ball buster.

NY gave me a hard time to get a seat for the PE and that took me 8 years of applications before I finally got in. For the morning section I left for lunch 1/2 hour early and for the afternoon my fellow test takers gasped when I walked out 1-1/2 hour early. I crushed that bitch- turned the boulder into gravel, the gravel into sand, then the sand into smooth sheets of clay. And in 6 hours not the 8 allotted.
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I took the EIT the weekend before senior finals ... hardest test I have ever taken ... the PE was a breeze compared to that 8 hour marathon.
 
ExpressLane said:
I never said ALL STEM students are conservatives. But the majority of Liberals pursue Liberal Arts Degrees and the majority of conservatives pursue STEM degrees.
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Most ppl enter college around age 18. Are you saying that at age 18, everyone knows what side of the political spectrum they will fall on? Is history a conservative or liberal field of studies? What about teaching? Nursing?
 
time to end this argument once and for all......if liberals are so highly educated, how do you explain JPP's mindless lib'ruls.......
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Most ppl enter college around age 18. Are you saying that at age 18, everyone knows what side of the political spectrum they will fall on? Is history a conservative or liberal field of studies? What about teaching? Nursing?
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The practical knowledge of a STEM degree teaches them to be conservative.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Most ppl enter college around age 18. Are you saying that at age 18, everyone knows what side of the political spectrum they will fall on? Is history a conservative or liberal field of studies? What about teaching? Nursing?
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Educated people look at the incredible mess humanity has made of the world, and when they first observe it, want to change it. The system gradually rots and corrupts them, drugs them up to forget what they are, so they end up conservative. History is about the failure to achieve socialism, so that the species is unlikely to survive.
 
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