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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Amazing that all those Democratic/Republican numbers always add up to 100.  Like professors can only be a Democrat or a Republican.  I am not even counted. Makes me doubt the rigor of the research.

-one of many politically independent professors[/quote]

My reading of the report suggests that they are only reporting on those professors who could be identified as Democrat or Republican and excluding those whose political affiliation couldn't be identified  - so someone registered as independent (often "no affiliation") wouldn't be included.  So, it makes sense that the numbers add up to 100% - though I suppose there could be people registered to the "Green Party" or "American Communist Party" - but if so they were probably excluded as well.

It would be helpful to know what percentage is included.

Don't feel bad I'm not counted either - but I don't necessarily doubt the rigor of the research - especially since the results do not seem surprising in the least.

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I absolutely doubt the quality of this "research."  The article is not peer-reviewed and the author, in his only nod to methodology, offers "I organized college students to investigate the voting registrations of university professors at more than a dozen institutions of higher learning."  Well, that is not much rigor.  I am sure that some professors are not registered to vote because they are only permanent residents.  Other professors are not members of any political party. Some are registered as independent.  I know personally know one who is not registered at all.  Are we to believe that after examining the voting registration of every professor at 12 universities, the author did not did not find one person who was not registered, registered without a party, or registered independent?

The second big problem with this "research" is the author.  He founded an organization to combat "leftist indoctrination" in higher education.  That alone should give a critical thinker pause.  But wait, there's more.  This author now works for a partisan political organization.  The Southern Poverty Law Center has accused him of racism with some good evidence.  He has taken $4M from an organization that promotes research to find a link between ethnicity and intelligence.  He has also accused the Muslim Students Association of being an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.  You might want to believe in his objectivity.  But I am more suspicious.  Oh, and the research is hardly fresh.  It was done in 2001.[/quote]

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