Zero Republican Professors in More Than Half of Surveyed University Departments

T. A. Gardner said:
Nordberg said:
Repubs don't see teaching as a valuable way of life. They scoff at them and insult them. They want complete control over them.
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QED, although I'd change "repub" to "Trumper". The irony being all the Trumps went to college. LOL
 
BidenPresident said:
Everyone who disagrees with you is a commie? Are you Archie Bunker?!
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He's clearly a sock puppet of a Trumper chickenshit who doesn't want to use his regular account: Joined 2013, only 2315 posts and, except for today's 20+ drive-by posts, hasn't posted since last August.

Alternatively, maybe he got kicked off his regular forum for being a flaming douchebag Trumpian cocksucker?
 
Boris The Animal said:
That's because they deserved to be scoffed at and insulted. In the two years I wasted at college, I had a grand total of one! That's right, ONE Conservative professor. Everyone else was a whackjob Leftist.
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Was that one conservative successful at indoctrinating you?
 
Boris The Animal said:
That's because they deserved to be scoffed at and insulted. In the two years I wasted at college, I had a grand total of one! That's right, ONE Conservative professor. Everyone else was a whackjob Leftist.
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it is true that more intelligent people tend to be liberal. You are not telling me anything about them. you are telling us about you.
 
Nordberg said:
it is true that more intelligent people tend to be liberal. You are not telling me anything about them. you are telling us about you.
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That's one theory, as noted in the linked article below. OTOH, I lean toward the second theory proposed in the same link:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...igence-and-politics-have-complex-relationship
A recent proponent of this view is Rinderman who argued that more intelligent people tend to have civic values that lead them to support political systems they believe will foster education and the growth of knowledge (Rindermann, Flores-Mendoza, & Woodley, 2012). Hence, according to this view, intelligent people tend to believe that moderate or centrist parties are more likely to promote their particular social interests compared to more clearly left or right parties.

In support of this, Rinderman et al. cite findings from Great Britain and Brazil showing that people who expressed support for centrist parties (including centre-right and centre-left) had higher average IQs compared to those who supported more clearly left or right parties. An interesting finding from the study in Brazil was that people who had a political orientation at all tended to have a higher IQ than those who said they had no political orientation. This suggests that people who are more intelligent tend to be more interested in and informed about politics generally. It is worth noting that the average IQs cited for the various political orientations in Rinderman et al.’s study were all well within the normal range (an IQ ranging between 90 – 110 is considered “average”). For example, those who supported centre-right parties had an IQ around 105 whereas those who supported clearly left or right parties had IQs around 94.
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That said, Boris is clearly an extremist dumbass and, IMO, a sock for a cowardly Trumpian cocksucker.
 
Flash said:
Agreed. I clearly said Democrats far outnumber Republicans among college professors, especially in the social sciences and humanities. I don't have a party, but if you are erroneously assuming I am a Democrat you are wrong. However, I don't see how it makes Democrats look bad. If I were partisan I would claim it proves smarter more educated people are Democrats. But, that would be as oversimplified a conclusion as those who claim colleges don't hire conservatives.

The truth and facts are clearly that a faculty member's party affiliation is an unknown factor in the hiring process. At highly ranked universities the applicants research and publications determine his qualifications. Graduate departments are ranked by their publications in the top ranked journals. Neither party affiliation or (unfortunately) teaching ability are factors.

This topic is covered well in a book called "Passing on the Right." It is research conducted in political science departments dealing with the issue of conservatives in academia. One chapter compares conservatives to gay faculty members. They don't publicize they are gay or conservative early in their career, but after a few years they don't mind telling faculty colleagues they trust who don[t really care. A professor with highly respected publications is just as respected regardless of political ideology.

Of course, nobody respects those crazy conspiracy theory people who were birthers, election deniers, January 6 defenders, 9/11 truthers, but not many college professors are going to fall for lies that have no evidence to support them.
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You show you are a democrats when you think they are smarter. Read the OP link it shows conservative students are afraid to show their beliefs for it may affect their grade
 
archives said:
First off, you are reporting an admittedly conservative survey posted on a recognized conservative website, did you expect the conclusions to be anything different?

And secondly, “primarily those in the humanities,” and you are surprised the majority leaned left? Did you think you were going to find a lot of conservative Sociology professors. In addition, not citing where, and who were the seven schools surveyed, is dishonest, NYC has over a hundred colleges in the City itself, don’t think you are going to find a lot of conservative teachers in NYU or Harper?

Sure if you took the same survey in a Mississippi or even Texas you’d find the opposite, especially if you went outside the humanities

You offered “proof” of nothing except your willingness to swallow anything anybody tells you that you want to believe is true
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So you admit the OP is correct
 
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