On 1/11/10 8:47 PM, "Thaths" <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian > <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: >> Thaths wrote: >>> http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/gambetta/Engineers%20of%20Jihad.pdf >> Bah. Almost everybody in "the developing world" gets himself an >> engineering / science degree rather than an arts degree because >> it¹s a passport to a stable job. > > The authors normalized their data by correcting for varying levels of > enrollment in engineering programs and got similar results.
Any "study" that attempts to "explain" the randomness of human lives goes straight into my "Bullshit" folder these days. There are way too many variables for this study to be anything other than a thought experiment.
