Build-a-Bomber: Why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees?
Posted: December 30, 2009.
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Earlier studies had shown that terrorists tend to be wealthier and better-educated than their countrymen, but Gambetta and Hertog found that engineers, in particular, were three to four times more likely to become violent terrorists than their peers in finance, medicine or the sciences. The next most radicalizing graduate degree, in a distant second, was Islamic Studies.








Does this mean I am destined to be a atheistic terrorist? haha (oxymoron?) This pattern is probably due to the fact that engineering is fucking hard and makes you a little crazy. That or these terrorists had a predisposition on destruction before choosing a major and engineering would allow for the knowledge to create the most damaging devices. Its seems like chemical engineering would be preferred.
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