Should We Be Surprised at Political Bias in Academia?

Ruh-Roh. John Tierney in today's Times: "... Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia who studies the intuitive foundations of morality and ideology ... polled his audience at the San Antonio Convention Center [during the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology], starting by asking how many considered themselves politically liberal. A sea of hands appeared, and Dr. Haidt estimated that liberals made up 80 percent of the 1,000 psychologists in the ballroom. When he asked for centrists and libertarians, he spotted fewer than three dozen hands. And then, when he asked for conservatives, he counted a grand total of three."

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