Who knew, indeed?

If you need a laugh for the day, there is this survey by two Lousiana State University professors, both former reporters, who find, shazaam!!!!

According to the professors, journalists are significantly more ethical than the average adult and eclipsed only by seminarians, doctors, and medical students.

The ethical questions in the study? Renita Coleman in an interview on NPR explains.

There's six ethical situations that people are asked to solve, everything from should a man steal a drug for his wife, who will die without it, and the pharmacist, coldhearted as he is, won't give it to him, to you've been living next door to a model citizen for ten years, and then you find out that he's an escaped prisoner - should you turn him in? There's six of those. They're true dilemmas in the sense that there's no one right answer.

It's called situational ethics, lady, but, it has it's purpose that rapidly becomes clear.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: You didn't break this down according to religion?

RENITA COLEMAN: Religion correlates with high ethical reasoning, up to a point, and then, as people begin to be more religious, their ethical reasoning gets lower, so it's a curvilinear relationship. So, one of the findings is that relying too much on religious doctrine and rules can actually inhibit good quality ethical reasoning sometimes.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: That's fascinating.

RENITA COLEMAN: Yeah. And we're not the only ones who found that. There's been many studies that have been done that have come to the same conclusion.

I'll bet. Two former reporters validating their former professions interviewed by committed Leftists at NPR.

Complete study here. Pity they didn't list the questions. But page 9 shows the adults in general score was 40.00. The "significantly more ethical" journos? 48.68. That's some moral superiority even when two former journos wanna give em more credit and Editor & Publisher wants to rally the troops and the study is weighted so that the more education, the more 'ethical' they are. The only pit in the cherry for Coleman's logic is how Seminarians scored.

You knew something touted on NPR and in Editor & Publisher had to be complete crap.