Outside in » Risk http://www.xenosystems.net Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 01:26:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 Politics on the Job http://www.xenosystems.net/politics-on-the-job/ http://www.xenosystems.net/politics-on-the-job/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2014 05:49:31 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=4150 A bunch of charts breaking down occupations by ideology are flying across the Internet at the moment. Perhaps Robin Hanson started it? (Linked by Cowan here.) Hanson includes a link to this NYT article, which focuses upon the Left-orientation of tertiary education, but that’s a huge, perennial topic in itself.

Hanson has his own theory on the subject, based upon differences in risk orientation, but my favorite analysis was provided by commenter adrianratnapala:

Most of the data on those plots can be explained by a rule that says “People who who tell other people what to think for a living lean left. Nearly everyone else leans (nominally) right.”

Bonus (indirectly related) chart dug up from the web:

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(The site it’s taken from looks like a gold-mine for this kind of stuff, if rather popcorn-heavy.)

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