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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (88625)11/29/2004 1:39:00 PM
From: kech  Read Replies (1) of 793739
 
Why couldn't it be:

1. Universities attract smart people and smart people think alike?
2. Truth is pretty much self evident.
3. If you have time to study and think, you arrive at conclusions differently than most people who do not have the time, the bandwidth, and the desire to study and think.

That is the way people in the elite Liberal Arts institutions would like to interpret it. But selection bias works a lot of ways besides just "smart people". There are a lot of other selection biases at play besides just "smart people" and these work differently in each field and in each university where people are trained and get the idea to go in to the academic professions.
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