Have yet more anti-nerd talk going on on my FB. Very worrying. I need stats on any political trends in relation to nerdiness.
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My experience is necessarily limited but I find that if I try to talk to very analytical colleagues about ideas about religion & gender...
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...they are more interested in what was actually happening in real terms than theology & ideology underpinning it.
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Well, not quite right. Interested in the ideas but not so much in exploring them moralistically in relation to current understanding.
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Less theory, more data. This doesn't lend itself to adhering to extreme ideological positions.
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Not apolitical but not extreme either. I've worked in universities so nearly everyone is left but they're often closest to centre-left.
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Mmm… unfortunately I'm inclined to suspect the opposite, on average.
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Really? You find nerdy-types more ideological? In any particular direction? Religious, political, left, right?
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Think this is dependent on what a nerd is and what they specialise in. I was recently told by a social scientist, in full seriousness,
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That all republican candidates in the US election were sociopaths. An extraordinary conclusion for a US politics specialist.
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