geauxtohell
Choose your weapon.
Okay my turn to ask for a source or support for your opinion. A number of studies, cited by PC, G Will, and myself, iclearly identifies a liberal bias in academia AND the media.
What is your authoritative source for your opinion that the number of professors who consider themselves to be liberal is less than 50%? Do you have one that cites a scientific poll or study as we have cited to support our opinion>?
It would be from PC:
http://www.usmessageboard.com/2218495-post195.html
"Higher Education Research Institute at the UCLA published a survey in 2002, of 55,521 professors at 416 colleges and universities nationwide. They found that 48% of the professors identified themselves as ‘liberal’ or ‘far left;’ 34% as ‘middle of the road.
Being a believer in statistics, I am impressed with any study where n=55,521. I don't think you could do much better than that on this issue. Anyways: Via simple math: 52% of professors in this country don't consider themselves to be liberal or far left.
If we reduce this to simple liberal vs. conservative logic, as PC loves to do: that means that 52% of them are conservative.
However, we both know that manner of thinking is silly, especially in light of the fact that 34% consider themselves to be middle of the road.
At any rate, I think we can safely say that, in light of the actual numbers, the "liberal domination" of academia is somewhat of a canard.
And further, how do you argue against my point that liberals mostly consider themselves to be in the mainstream and the 'normal' ones while the rest of us who express views consdiered to be right of center or conservative to be the ones who are out of the mainstream?
By pointing out that it is your opinion that you can, in no way quantify. Unless you think you can speak for about 20,000 individuals.
You have observer bias on this issue. You want to see a liberal domination of higher education, so when the numbers don't square with that, you have to explain it away somehow.
Whether or not you consider Will a bore, he is not stating the facts he stated in a vacuum. Most liberals in academia or the media automatically assume that those among them are liberal.
Will is stating an opinion. Once again, he can no more prove it than I can prove that the core of Jupiter is a large diamond. If Will, or a faculty member, could prove they were denied tenure for political reasons, the case would be being made in a court and not on some lame op-ed piece.
But to be an editorialist, you have to know how to pluck the right heart-strings.
Being in the media, you should know that.