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<div>The participation of scholars and scientists in government has attracted attention since at least the time of Plato. The ancient Greek philosopher envisioned a philosopher-scientist running the Ideal State. However, his own experience in politics was far from ideal and he ended being sold as a slave by the tyrant he had tried to educate. Recently, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/thanks-to-trump-scientists-are-planning-to-run-for-office/514229/">there has been a resurgence of interest in the participation of academics in cabinets</a>, largely due to the overtly anti-scientific message of the current US administration.</div><div></div><div>In this short post, we aim to assess empirically how the cabinets of the seven countries recently banned from travel to the US (Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Libya) compare in number of advanced degrees (degrees above Masters level: MS, MBA, JD, PhD, MD, DVM) and advanced <i><u>technical</u></i> degrees (PhD, MD, DVM) compared to the White House cabinet.</div><div></div><div>We used the <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/index.html" target="_blank">Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) listing of world leaders</a> and information on Wikipedia and the web to identify the cabinet members of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and the United States as of January 2017. <b>All the data that we collected and used for this post is open and available under the </b><a href="https://www.authorea.com/users/8850/articles/152351/master/folder/" target="_blank"><b>Data git folder of this article</b></a><b>.</b></div><div></div><h1 class="ltx_title_section">Results</h1><div>Among a total of 245 eligible cabinet positions analyzed (ranging from 13 to 42 per country), 79 (32%) were filled by members that attained a graduate degree of higher education.</div><div></div><h2 class="ltx_title_subsection">Advanced Degrees: United States ranks first</h2><div>The United States' cabinet has the cabinet with the highest number of advanced degrees (MS, MBA, JD, PhD, MD, DVM), with over 60% of its members holding a Masters degree or above (<b>Figure 1</b>). Iran is second in the list, with about half of its cabinet members holding advanced degrees. </div>
