Bias in Postdoc Hiring

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Liberals and others in academia are.  I'm going to guess that being surrounded by them has filtered down to everyone working on campus.

If you were put into a workplace of thousands and given an intense and specialized job, how likely you be to start adopting political views you wouldn't have otherwise, because they're held by employees with different jobs in different departments in different buildings?

People make hasty generalizations about politics in academe. They overread data points from a few elite schools, and many of those data points are provocative outliers not even representative of those schools. Among the things they overlook, they overlook the departments that lean right or apolitical, the entire types of college that lean right or apolitical, and the parts of the country where the right lean or the broad right-left mix of the general population is also seen in colleges.

I know 2 biology professors, both liberal.  So that's what I was going on - I don't think any department is exempt.  And, it's harder for conservatives to even get hired at all on many campuses.  So it gets filtered down just by who gets hired.

In general, liberal professors outnumber conservatives 12:1 across the country, and it will only get worse because the ratio is 10:1 for older professors but 22:1 for younger ones.