Academic Anti-Conservative Bias
Ugh.
Just over 37 % of social psychologists surveyed said that they'd choose a liberal job candidate over an equally qualified conservative one. I have no sense of how representative social psych is, but I don't know it to be wildly unrepresentative.
Personally, I know that I'd keep any conservative-seeming views to myself in an academic job interview. I'd certainly not let it be known that I own firearms, or take a hardish line on illegal immigration, or no longer consider myself a feminist...
More research needs to be done here. We don't want academia filled with fever-swamp righties, of course...but we also certainly don't want liberal bias...
Just over 37 % of social psychologists surveyed said that they'd choose a liberal job candidate over an equally qualified conservative one. I have no sense of how representative social psych is, but I don't know it to be wildly unrepresentative.
Personally, I know that I'd keep any conservative-seeming views to myself in an academic job interview. I'd certainly not let it be known that I own firearms, or take a hardish line on illegal immigration, or no longer consider myself a feminist...
More research needs to be done here. We don't want academia filled with fever-swamp righties, of course...but we also certainly don't want liberal bias...
posted by Winston Smith at
2:41 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah, that's not all that surprising.
Why do you no longer consider yourself a feminist?
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