Using the GSS and ISCO88 occupational classifications, we get the following distributions, first for STEM people* (n = 451) and then for society as a whole:
And so they are. Raison d'etre, that tagline.
GSS variables used: GOD(1)(2)(3-5)(6), ISCO88(2111-2114, 2121, 2122, 2131, 2132, 2141-2146, 2211, 2212, 2221-2224)
* Physicists, astronomers, meteorologists, chemists, geologists, geophysicists, mathematicians, computer systems designers and analysts, computer programmers, civil engineers, electrical engineers, electronics and telecommunications engineers, mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, architects, biologists, botanists, zoologists, pharmacologists, pathologists, medical doctors, dentists, veterinarians, and pharmacists.
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This is a topic of high interest to a lot of people, so I bet you get a lot of references. (But I suggest changing the title to something that has a shot at showing up on a typical google search.)
Bah. No way there are that many firm believers in this age of Cardinal Mahoney and Joel Osteen. I would guess liberally, less than 15%.
The whole thing with STEM is that certain sectors of Christianity are the same, only in inverse.
Some Christian men are heavily obsessed with (the Christian version of) STEM and Religion/Philosophy and not interested in FOX News/NRO/Glenn Beck/Palin or whatever.
Guys like Todd Akin maybe? Which once sat on the House Science Committe for Space, Science and Technology?
Maybe that's why BOTH Beck/Palin/Limbaugh and Barack Hussein Obama denounced him as some heretic?
Bah. No way there are that many firm believers in this age of Cardinal Mahoney and Joel Osteen. I would guess liberally, less than 15%.
Don't get out much, do ya?
Religious fanatics settled this continent. It is in their blood, man. Given that Osteen is in Houston, and his church is huge, there are probably quite a few STEM PhDs in his audience each week.
FWIW, from the giant Pew US Religious Landscape survey, the % of bachelor and post-grad degrees among members of churches similar to Osteen's:
Non-denom Charismatic: 13/11
Non-denom Evangelical: 18/15
Non-denom Fundamentalist: 19/11
Some caution here, small sample sizes, but close to the general population (16/11).
So based on your post following, I'd be interested to see religious *behavior* broken out for STEM workers and non-STEM workers. How many of those supposedly "firm believers" actually go to church?
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