By dragonwriter
> An aside: Academics are overwhelmingly liberal. People say it is a consequence of bias, but that is not necessarily true. If (broadly speaking) the smartest people are mostly liberal, maybe that tells us something.
Conservatives openly dismiss the value of academia compared to alternative pursuits like commercial industry. Why is it surprising that conservatives are, then, underrepresented in academia, even if there is neither any bias nor any correlation between intelligence and political orientation.
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