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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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Mick Mørmøny
To: koan who wrote (990270)12/26/2016 12:24:31 AM
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Okay you keep saying that.

I can objectify it.
Only 6% of scientists call themselves Republicans, 51% call themselves liberal and 80% lean Democratic.
PEW poll- you can google it
Why, do you suppose?


1) As in any field, the scientific field has a whole range of people with capabilities.

What would be more convincing might be statistics showing that those in the top of the field lean more to one side than the other.

2) Scientists - how well represented are the "hard" sciences or are the psychologists, sociologists, political scientists and so on (latter categories are probably more populous and thus more well represented and for various reasons tend to lean to the left).

3) Nuff said:


Now assuming that the polls are correct:

4) Logical fallacy - would you ask Einstein for marital or martial advice?
Oh, assume that he is still alive for that question :-)
Smart fellow, but he was divorced which does not preclude good advice but indicates that he might not give some; and I doubt if he knew Kung-Fu so learning that from Einstein would be quite entertaining but not otherwise useful.
How about - who would you prefer to fix your car, Einstein or the mechanic?
Note: Einstein might be an expert in theoretical and even experimental physics, but he might know nothing about car mechanics and mess up your car.

The logical fallacy is "appeal to authority" - when you are asking someone something out of their field.

All because many smart people eat Fruit Loops doesn't mean that there is something special about that cereal that will make you "smart".

5) Another Logical fallacy here - "bandwagon" - all the smart people are doing it, why not you?


Who knows - maybe scientists have though it through and liberal/democrat is far superior to whatever republicans have to offer. Maybe there are certain aspects to the right that turn them off so they go left. Maybe granting agencies lean left so it is advantageous to lean left.

But #4 & #5 above...

Please present a more convincing argument.
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