{"id":74,"date":"2008-03-27T07:22:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/2008\/03\/27\/uk-sociologist-diego-gambetta-explains-why-engineers-are-more-likely-to-become-terrorists\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T13:22:13","slug":"uk-sociologist-diego-gambetta-explains-why-engineers-are-more-likely-to-become-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/03\/27\/uk-sociologist-diego-gambetta-explains-why-engineers-are-more-likely-to-become-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"UK sociologist Diego Gambetta explains why engineers are more likely to become terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview with Nick Jackson recently published in The Independent<\/a>, University of Oxford sociologist Diego Gambetta explains why engineers are more likely to become terrorists based on current and ongoing research.<\/p>\n

“So why is this? Everyone’s first reaction is that they are recruited for their technical proficiency, but there’s no evidence for this. Recruiters say they look for a personality profile rather than technical skills.”<\/p>\n

“So we are left with two ideas: that certain social conditions affect engineers more than other graduates; and that certain unobservable traits attracting people more to radical Islamism are a little more frequent among engineers. My co-author Steffen Hertog and I think it’s a combination of these two things.” Read on from The Independent.\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an interview with Nick Jackson recently published in The Independent, University of Oxford sociologist Diego Gambetta explains why engineers are more likely to become terrorists based on current and ongoing research. “So why is this? Everyone’s first reaction is that they are recruited for their technical proficiency, but there’s no evidence for this. Recruiters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39115,133],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-politics","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}