Actually, I find myself nodding in agreement here. My 'logic' is nothing more than the gut-feel that, at least in the case of students from developing nations, the ones more driven to "do something with their lives" typically tend to take the more difficult / "rewarding" engineering courses.
Follows that they might also be the ones more amenable to what the rest of us might call extremist dogma. On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Deepak Jois <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.hserus.net/pipermail/silklist/attachments/20100112/9913ed5f/attachment.html>
