On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian > <[email protected]> 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 >> it’s 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. >
Way too much reliance on data, with no interesting or original insight. Seems like BS to me :). May I offer this shorter piece instead by Olivier Roy, which poses the right questions (but does not answer them) : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/opinion/11iht-edroy.html Deepak
