Charles Murray — who wrote a <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067170625X/qid=1080744828/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl14/104-0355373-4708747?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

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Catherine and I must have met a couple of hundred of them during our research for the Apollo book. And almost all of these were gov’t engineers, not private sector. I met precisely one who was a liberal. Maybe others were too, but among everyone who even mentioned politics, being conservative was taken for granted. I think there is a distinction between the engineer mindset, which is definitely, “There’s a way to fix that,” and the impulse to extend that mindset to human problems, which seems to be a proclivity of intellectuals.
Whoops. That leads to one other thought: Apollo got almost none of its engineers from the Ivy League.
Charles