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Comment author: Manfred 07 June 2012 11:04:57AM 5 points [-]

Maybe? For example, in terrorist groups, engineers are of obvious usefulness and are directly recruited, interfering with inferences about radicalism.

What we really need here is a controlled experiment :P

Comment author: JoshuaZ 07 June 2012 03:38:28PM 9 points [-]

This explanation doesn't quite work since many engineers have become suicide bombers. If engineers were being recruited largely for their technical skill one would expect them to be the very last people used in that ashion.