somejan comments on Debiasing as Non-Self-Destruction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 03 August 2011 03:40:20PM 2 points [-]

It's hard to say especially since terrorists are a tiny proportion of engineers, and it would be good to study engineers rather than guessing about them.

Engineer-terrorists mystify me. Shouldn't engineers be the people least likely to think that you can get the reaction you want from a complex system by giving it a good hard kick?

Comment author: somejan 06 August 2011 04:56:51PM 1 point [-]

As another datapoint (though I don't have sources), I heard that among evangelical church leaders you also find a relatively higher proportion of engineers.