title: Political attitudes in social environments.
abstract: We agree with Duarte et al. that it is worthwhile to study professions' political alignments. But we have seen no evidence to support the idea that social science fields with more politically diverse workforces generally produce better research. We also think that when considering ideological balance, it is useful to place social psychology within a larger context of the prevailing ideologies of other influential groups within society, such as military officers, journalists, and business executives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics,Columbia University,New York,NY 10027.gelman@stat.columbia.eduhttp://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gelman
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology,Colby College,Waterville,ME 04901.nlgross@colby.edu.
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012931:Social Environment