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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
But the disparity is far wider in the social sciences and humanities than in the hard sciences, economics, and engineering (20:1 vs 4:1). In other words, far more physicists and biologists reconcile being academics with being Republicans than anthropologists and English profs do. Haidt calls what's happening in the social sciences and humanities a purity spiral, something found in other social contexts outside academia.
Seriously, you'll learn a lot more about it from the horse's mouth, along with stats and links to studies, than you'll get from reading this thread.
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I don't know. The things that conservatives tend to care about don't really slot in well with social sciences and humanities. I think it's more of a case of people with conservatives leanings tend to stay away from those faculties rather than those faculties turning the blank slate and/or right leaning students into frothing liberals.