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By: Doc Merlin

Steve: The vast, vast majority of academic fields do not center around politically charged issues.   Yes and the ones that are least politically charged and more objectively testable are less likely...

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By: Orin Kerr

Steve, I’m curious, do you teach in a field that you would consider part of that vast, vast majority? If you’re willing to say, in what general field do you teach?

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By: No Theory of Jurisprudence

Doc Merlin: Yes and the ones that are least politically charged and more objectively testable are less likely to be leftist. Hence why Engineering is the most conservative department followed by...

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By: Dw

President Summers, you’re fired.

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By: Mavis Beacon

I would actually theorize that men are more interested in politics because of the competitive dimension. Political coverage and sports coverage have a lot in common.

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By: Careless

Dw: President Summers, you’re fired.   It was a pretty sad situation when a comment on brains led to the feminists being able to force a man out of his job over the objections of the actual relevant...

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By: LarryA

SenX: Now I will read her crime books if they are good and really enjoy some of them but I can’t think of a single science fiction book she has read. My wife and I fit the same categories. She did...

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By: Frank Drackman

Its simple, in junior high when I was learning how to throw a curve ball, memorizing Ron Cey’s career statistics, and the Infield Fly Rule, my sister was banging guys. In High School when I was...

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By: Mike

It has been my experience that women in our culture, for whatever reasons, are less likely to “geek out” over a subject. Whatever the area if interest for guys, there is a strong tendency to pick one...

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By: JHW

Have you considered cross-national differences in political interest among women? I know there’s a substantial amount of difference in the proportion of women involved in politics across countries, and...

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By: AJ

Women are more cooperative; men are more competitive. Politics these days emphasizes the horse-race and who has created political leverage. Due in part because of the evolution of the media, it’s...

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By: AJ

Frank Drackman: So its only natural I remember Mark Belanger’s uniform number (#7)the plot to every “Brady Bunch” episode and what a Hoffman degradation is while my sister is still banging guys Your...

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By: Jacob

Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men by Roy F. Baumeister has some interesting thoughts on why men are more into politics than women. His basic thesis is that men...

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By: ben

Frank wins. No reason for this blog to continue.

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By: Joe

female dominated I rarely find the same level of obsession women never obsess about Lady Di, celebrities, child issues, appearance and so forth? to toss out all the stereotypical “women” issues?

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By: KL

She is sexist too. She said that articles of interest for women are not written. So the name of the second king of Rome or the text of the Constitution of the Consulate or the doppler effect is a male...

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By: KL

Women are more cooperative; men are more competitive So thats why there is an study showing that only men music groups do well than only women ones. Rolling Stones playing until the grave and beyond...

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By: KL

Steve is right: Natural sciences( the only real ones) even biology are not politically charged. religion is not a political question. Only, the USA ( in the western world) a allows superstition to...

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By: Sk

I’m not going to repeat what so many have said: “Why the difference? The most obvious explanation is that politics was historically a male-dominated sphere from which women were largely excluded. Only...

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By: wolfefan

Frank Drackman for the humorous win, Mavis Beacon for the more serious win. It’s hard to tell Fox/MSNBC from ESPN in tone, approach, breathless hype of trivia, and overall value. People root for...

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