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“To explain why professors gravitate to the left, Gross turns to social psychology, speculating that the process works through self-selection, similar to the process that results in most nurses or elementary school teachers being women. If you are left-leaning, you are more likely to consider going to graduate school and becoming a professor — especially in the humanities and in social sciences like anthropology and sociology. (Engineering and business tend rightward.) This l...
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Is there a “liberal bias” in academia?

Sociologist Neil Gross dispels the myth that college campuses are overrun with lefty East Coast intellectuals

salon.com|Por Jeffrey J. Williams