disruption skills

Worldwide, engineers are only 3.5% of the population but 20% of all militants & terrorists.

Odd Op Ed at NY Times:

They say they believe in freedom and share our values. They say a few bad apples shouldn’t bring down judgment on their entire kind. Don’t be fooled.

Though they walk among us with impunity, they are a group that is notoriously associated with fundamentalist political beliefs and terrorist violence.

They are engineers!

Over the past few decades, of 404 violent Islamist men trained beyond high school (some in jail, some not), 44% were engineers.

Grab their slide rules, er, steal their laptops and run.

Yo! Communist &  anarchist groups have almost no engineers.