Engineers,why RW? Anal-sadistics theory

[oscar111]

Anyone know why most engineers are so RW?

Anal-sadism.. Of Freud's theory.. where anal means analretentive, or greed,... is my deepest explanation of RW sickness.

You have any other, deeper theory?

You have any recent PET scan evidence about the organic centers involved in RW brains? And why they develop?
thanks

[lapfog_1]

1. Despite the stereotype

Do you have any facts or numbers to back up such a claim?

As a hardcore computer nerd / engineer, most of the others that I've
met are mostly centrist or left-center, some are outright tree
hugging socialists. Engineers are logical people (that's why Spock
is their hero), and that's makes the illogical nature of many RW
positions hard for them to grasp. I'm not saying that there aren't
ANY freeper engineers, but I doubt seriously that even a majority
are republican, much less freepernazis.

[punpirate]

2. Maybe not software engineers...

... but you need to wander around amongst the civil/mechanical/nuclear types. Different ambience, entirely.

Brown & Root started out in road construction.... Bechtel builds nuclear reactors, among other things. Halliburton started out in oilfield instruments.

These guys make their livings on right-wing wet dreams.

Cheers.

[lefador]

3. This has to be one of the most retarded posts ever

First off do you have any remote connection with real engineers? Have you ever gone to engineering school?

If anything Engineers are either extremely left wing/liberal or some of the right wingers in engineering I have met are more of a libertarian angle. Most engineers I work with are staunch demos.

Management is a totally different thing though. Most EE, CE's (as in Computer), BME's, ME's, and AE's I know are pretty liberal. Civil Engineering is usually regarded as the joke engineering though :). All in all if you go to grad school the atmosphere becomes even more liberal.

Most of the best tech campuses are also rather liberal, MIT, CalTech (my alma matter) were both pretty progressive.

[Spinzonner]

4. When I was at Caltech it was somewhat liberal

of course that was the late 60's when the draft was in full swing with the Vietnam War going on so being left-wing was a matter of self-preservation.

[TNDemo]

5. My husband is an engineer.

And as left as they come.

[salinen]

6. I am an Architect

and so I have dealings with ME, CE, SE, and Soils people. Probably not indicative of the general population. Slanted toward liberalism, at least in Central California.

[realisticphish]

7. Engineering College

I was only in the Engineering program for a year, before I switched out into Poli Sci, but during that time I saw mostly right wingers. Granted it was mostly freshman, but the only other two liberals I found were also switching out, one to Poli Sci, the other to journalism. But thats here at Ohio State, I don't know about elsewhere

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

8. I work with alot of engineers & architects...yes they ARE rightys

They are all pretty right wing. In some cases VERY right wing...and also libertarian.

Why?

Well, I think the nature of the work, wich is heavily mathematical, sort of pushes a very binary, no shades of gray, frame of mind.