<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 9:59 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Side question:  are there any engineers in Congress?  In the California legislature?  Doctors and lawyers, yes.  STEM people, not so much.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_111th_United_States_Congress">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_111th_United_States_Congress</a> says 5 engineers & 6 scientists in Congress.  The proportion is likely similar in the California legislature.  As the counts of other professions in that article demonstrate, this is not the quality that electors care about.</div></div></div>