{"id":2912,"date":"2016-03-26T16:53:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T23:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2016-03-26T19:27:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T02:27:32","slug":"does-engineering-education-breed-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2016\/03\/26\/does-engineering-education-breed-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"More Dangerous Even Than Muslims!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> asks: Does Engineering Education Breed Terrorists?<\/a><\/em> But I suspect that it’s more about whom the discipline appeals to than how they are trained<\/p>\n

Some things that might attract a person to engineering (not necessarily applicable to all engineers, but strong enough to attract a non-representative sample into the profession):
\n-need for control
\n-attraction to systems with well-defined rules
\n-being more interested in things than in human feelings
\n-desire for ability to surprise by doing things that others can’t
\n-being committed to a campaign of terror and wanting the skills to carry it out
\nNeed I go on? No one factor will explain all cases, but there are good reasons not to be surprised by seeing more engineers among the terrorists than say womens’ studies majors.<\/p>\n

Of course the proportion of terrorists who are engineers is not the same as the proportion of engineers who are terrorists, but the 90 identified engineering terrorists are undoubtedly a larger proportion of the total population of engineers than the 500 of the full sample are as a proportion of the entire Islamic world. So perhaps Donald Trump should take note of the fact that being an engineer is a higher risk factor than being a muslim. And since we don’t know how to identify which is which, we should subject all engineers to special scrutiny in airports etc – at least until they agree to weed out their own bad apples – and maybe the only way for a country to be truly safe is to ban them from entry altogether and put ankle-bracelet location monitors on those that are already here.
\nSource: Does Engineering Education Breed Terrorists? – The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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