Democratic vs. Republican occupations

[Tyler]

More fun with job statistics: This website lets you see how your particular occupation leans politically. 

http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/

Fun fact #1: When your brain hurts, you're far more likely to find a Republican Neurosurgeon than a Republican Psychiatrist. 

Fun fact #2: Book Publishers are apparently 100% Democratic.  That's actually more Dem than Union Organizer. 

[Pointedstick]

I'm very surprised to see Engineering with 71% Democrats. 

I bet a large number of them would admit libertarian leanings if the survey had included such a question; engineers are notoriously libertarian in their liberalism. At least that's true among my silicon valley colleagues; there are a ton of left-libertarian types. More outright democrats than republicans, including a few avowed socialists (mostly the ones imported from Canada, I notice).

[Tyler]

I'm very surprised to see Engineering with 71% Democrats.

Most of the engineering sub-categories are relatively bipartisan, and the overall stats seem to be skewed by the software engineers (are they really more left-leaning than environmental engineers?).  With the huge number of SW jobs in California, I imagine there's some regional factors at play. 

[Libertarian666]

I'm very surprised to see Engineering with 71% Democrats. 

I bet a large number of them would admit libertarian leanings if the survey had included such a question; engineers are notoriously libertarian in their liberalism. At least that's true among my silicon valley colleagues; there are a ton of left-libertarian types. More outright democrats than republicans, including a few avowed socialists (mostly the ones imported from Canada, I notice).

Correct. That's the great thing about surveys; you can get almost any results you want if you get to make up the questions!

[MachineGhost]

More fun with job statistics: This website lets you see how your particular occupation leans politically. 

http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/

Fun fact #1: When your brain hurts, you're far more likely to find a Republican Neurosurgeon than a Republican Psychiatrist. 

Fun fact #2: Book Publishers are apparently 100% Democratic.  That's actually more Dem than Union Organizer.

That was interesting, but not too surprising based on experiential gut impressions.  Democrats tend to be wholistic, permissive, verbally expressive, emotionally open, feminine and whereas Republicans tend to be narrow, restrictive, physically expressive, emotionally closed and masculine.  It's all in the brain!

I think you could even go so far and say that Democrats are to growth what Republicans are to value.

[Pointedstick]

I think that may be in somewhat the same category as this:

[img width=600]http://i.imgur.com/BnbmQY2.png[/img]

Since "homemaker" and a "stay-at-home-<whatever>" describe the same thing, what's actually being revealed is that people's linguistic preferences for self-identification differ based on their politics.

In your example, it seems that Republicans prefer the term "Entrepreneur" to "Business Founder", and Democrats the reverse, I suspect because of negative associations with the former term, which is heavily promoted in the political lexicon of the right.