Excerpt: If you ask professors about their politics, they’ll say one thing. But if you use a complex algorithm to predict their politics based on their social-media interactions — as a recent study did — it’ll say another.
By scraping the accounts of more than 4,000 faculty members at over 500 institutions, a forthcoming paper based on the study says that the professoriate’s political persuasions are more diverse than previous survey-based research would suggest. The paper, which will be published in The Review of Higher Education, a peer-reviewed journal, also points to polarization across the political spectrum, arguing that professors’ true beliefs are more extreme and varied than widely thought.
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