There’s a surprising correlation between studying engineering and being a terrorist. I don’t know if the correlation holds up for people who actually work in engineering rather than just having studied it.
I wonder how much of that is due to possible cognitive traits or simple competence. Because it’s only natural to be more inclined to sign up for things if you’re going to good at it. And apart from commandos engineers seem to be the ideal recruits.
Sorry no source, but from what I’ve read, people with engineering degrees are recruited because they’re recruitable as suicide bombers, they’re not wanted for bombmakers or because they’d be good at positioning themselves for maximum damage.
Danger, wild speculation ahead: I’d assume it has something to do with the saying “Engineers can’t lie.” I can imagine constantly experiencing that doing things in violation with reality leads to failure, while at the same time hearing politicians lie pretty much every time they open their mouth and having them get elected again and again (or not failing in another way), to make quite a few of them seriously fed up with the current government in particular and humanity in general. Some less stable personalities might just want to watch the world burn at that point. Which should make them recruitable as terrorists, if you use the right sales pitch.
I wonder how much of that is due to possible cognitive traits or simple competence. Because it’s only natural to be more inclined to sign up for things if you’re going to good at it. And apart from commandos engineers seem to be the ideal recruits.
Sorry no source, but from what I’ve read, people with engineering degrees are recruited because they’re recruitable as suicide bombers, they’re not wanted for bombmakers or because they’d be good at positioning themselves for maximum damage.
Danger, wild speculation ahead: I’d assume it has something to do with the saying “Engineers can’t lie.” I can imagine constantly experiencing that doing things in violation with reality leads to failure, while at the same time hearing politicians lie pretty much every time they open their mouth and having them get elected again and again (or not failing in another way), to make quite a few of them seriously fed up with the current government in particular and humanity in general. Some less stable personalities might just want to watch the world burn at that point. Which should make them recruitable as terrorists, if you use the right sales pitch.