Mind: Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers?

With terrorism back in the news, so, too, is a curious footnote: Of the hundreds of individuals involved in political violence, nearly half of those with degrees have been engineers. This finding, first published in 2008, has been substantiated by two years of additional research by Oxford sociologist Diego Gambetta and political scientist Steffen Hertog, of the London School of Economics.

From Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? by September 15, 2010, Steven Cherry, at IEEE Spectrum.