&gt; I notice no citation, nor what &quot;much more likely&quot; means.<p>The blog post still makes the very important point that no one cares about beliefs when hiring. If one so chooses to be a bad teacher and teach things that are flat out wrong, well, that just makes firing them justified based on incompetence.<p>I think the NYTimes article is begging the question; if you ask <i>why</i> there are fewer conservatives&#x2F;evangelicals&#x2F;fundamentalists in the universities, one possible answer is that they are self-selecting, <i>not</i> that they&#x27;re being discriminated against.