http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/29/middleeast/saudi-arabia-poet-ashraf-fayadh-death-sentence/

Perhaps someone does not know what they talk about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Poets

And that is just the tip of the iceberg. You want to find a culture that honors poets–this is it.

Although it could also be… there just aren’t many poets to choose from in the Arab world. As for women, I guess they just chose to ignore the Chechen Shahidka female suicide bombers or Tashfeen Malik, who was a pharmacy student. Come to think of it, my Walgreens pharmacist seems overly prone to disgust whenever I renew my anti-rash medication. I think I’m going to recommend surveillance.

Believe me, I’ve known some poets, and I dare say that I know a lot of women also. I can report that many of them have no problem expressing their disgust for a whole host of issues (Just an aside- never date a female poet when you have a rash unless you want to spark a holy war).

And in fact, there were/are plenty of left wing radical groups in the US and Europe populated by philosophers, social scientists, and poets. The book even mentions the Baader-Meinhof Group whose members were all lawyers and humanities graduates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction

There are many others. Bill Ayers was an American Studies major, as was also a very good friend of mine. Ayers blew up the Pentagon. My friend is a journalist.

If disgust and group bias exclusive to engineers leads them over the edge, what is it that makes German poets go Che Guevara? I doubt it was a proneness to love and respect and societal openness that prompted the Red Army Faction to attack the German embassy and kill two hostages.

This book is a lot of spurious correlations grounded on speculative, unprovable assumptions. How do you measure simplism anyway?