“… Had those groups reflected the working-age populations of their countries, engineers would have made up about 3.5% of the membership. Instead, nearly 20% of the militants had engineering degrees. When Gambetta and Hertog looked at only the militants whose education was known for certain to have gone beyond high school, close to half (44%) had trained in engineering. Among those with advanced degrees in the militants’ homelands, only 18% are engineers …” (more)
[Avid Berreby, New York Times, 10 September]