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== Head's up - this isn't as simple as it may seem ==

== Head's up - this isn't as simple as it may seem ==

As I was doing some admittedly "Google-esque" research, I did find that there are well over 6000 colleges and universities and probably many more than 250,000 current faculty at the present time.  If we work backwards a generation or two, the number increases, of course, which makes it difficult to substantiate the claim that professors are disproportionately likely to commit crimes or other misdeeds, especially if all we cite are fewer than 20 examples of such misdeeds.  Looking at campus statistics, many more campus crimes (by far) were committed by students, to say nothing about the many thousands of crimes committed by the general public.  So I started doing some informal Google searches for crimes committed by different professions, using -- for lack of a more efficient search method -- "professor arrested," "faculty arrested," etc. along with other professional categories.  Combining "faculty" or "professor" and "crime" didn't work well (too many useless hits).

As I was doing some admittedly "Google-esque" research, I did find that there are well over 4000 colleges and universities and probably many more than 1,250,000 current faculty.  If we work backwards a generation or two, the number increases, of course, which makes it difficult to substantiate the claim that professors are disproportionately likely to commit crimes or other misdeeds, especially if all we cite are fewer than 20 examples of such misdeeds.  Looking at campus statistics, many more campus crimes (by far) were committed by students, to say nothing about the many thousands of crimes committed by the general public.  So I started doing some informal Google searches for crimes committed by different professions, using -- for lack of a more efficient search method -- "professor arrested," "faculty arrested," etc. along with other professional categories.  Combining "faculty" or "professor" and "crime" didn't work well (too many useless hits).

The highest, in that combination alone, was "teacher" (over 190,000 hits), but "mayor" still had more hits (over 27,000) than "faculty" or "professor" (about 14,000).  Unfortunately, hits for "pastor," "minister," and "priest," added up to an uncomfortably high number, over 100,000, but then again, if we don't know how many pastors, etc. are out there, we have no percentage to compare them with faculty or other groups.  My methodology is rudimentary, but I didn't see any demographic or statistical reports that covered this topic.  So, unless we can document this so-called high rate of crime among faculty, perhaps the article should remain mute on the number, relative to other professions.  After seeing some statistics about the correlation between educational level and prison population, it also seems like the prison population is much more likely to have no or little education.  There are very few PhDs in prisons.  Likewise, after seeing these figures, I would guess that the more one is educated, the less likely one is to get felonies or misdemeanors.

The highest, in that combination alone, was "teacher" (over 190,000 hits), but "mayor" still had more hits (over 27,000) than "faculty" or "professor" (about 14,000).  Unfortunately, hits for "pastor," "minister," and "priest," added up to an uncomfortably high number, over 100,000, but then again, if we don't know how many pastors, etc. are out there, we have no percentage to compare them with faculty or other groups.  My methodology is rudimentary, but I didn't see any demographic or statistical reports that covered this topic.  So, unless we can document this so-called high rate of crime among faculty, perhaps the article should remain mute on the number, relative to other professions.  After seeing some statistics about the correlation between educational level and prison population, it also seems like the prison population is much more likely to have no or little education.  There are very few PhDs in prisons.  Likewise, after seeing these figures, I would guess that the more one is educated, the less likely one is to get felonies or misdemeanors.