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Any idea what happens when you separate philosophy...

2011-12-05T13:39:29.946-08:00

Any idea what happens when you separate philosophy from religious studies? Are the two majors roughly equally employable or is one group dragging the other group down?

Here's evidence that what I posted earlier is ...

2011-11-15T06:22:31.747-08:00

Here's evidence that what I posted earlier is correct: http://www.apa.org/news/press/response/employment-data.aspx

That's the official response from the American Psychological Association. The data are just for B.S./B.A. degrees. There are very few people with a bachelor's in clinical psychology and, as I wrote earlier, you can't do anything with that degree other than try to get more schooling or do something unrelated. Further, having poked around the web, I think it's safe to say that colleges/universities that offer undergrad degrees in clinical psychology are sub-standard in general.

People with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology (recent grads) have unemployment at 3.8%, which is in line with other advanced degrees.

So these data are only as good as the sample size of the individual majors and even then are misleading because a number of the degrees require further education to have a career in that particular field.

I think this just looks at B.S. degrees (I haven&#...

2011-11-09T15:43:22.571-08:00

I think this just looks at B.S. degrees (I haven't verified that because I haven't looked at the source material - from Johns Hopkins), which is why this is a list of majors and not careers (note that there are no professional degrees in the list; no doctors, lawyers, etc.). I believe this because my particular field is listed as having huge unemployment with low median salaries (salaries much lower than bls.gov reported stats). But you are unemployable in my field without a PhD (which could explain the high unemployment rates and low salaries). Basically, this is a list of what jobs look like if you have a B.S. (or B.A. or equivalent) in one of these majors and want to get a job right out of undergrad. At least, that's what it seems like. It's quite misleading. It's also not really possible to have 0% unemployment.

It may be a small sample size, but small or not......

2011-11-09T13:09:17.078-08:00

It may be a small sample size, but small or not... Apparently if you look at astrophysicists they all have jobs. (Which for most people is all that matters.)

I think we astrophysicists may be benefiting from ...

2011-11-09T12:52:47.628-08:00

I think we astrophysicists may be benefiting from small sample size a bit here. A quick look at the data shows that there are 6 majors listed with 0% unemployment and all six of those rank below 150th in popularity out of 173 options. Also, a high fraction of astro majors go on to grad school, so that might artificially drive down the unemployment numbers.

That's not to say that astronomy and astrophysics grads don't do well getting jobs, but in reality I would expect our numbers to be more in line with those of our physics siblings at about 4.5%.

Comments on The Eternal Universe: You WIll *Not* Be Unemployed If You Go Into Astrop...

Any idea what happens when you separate philosophy...

Here's evidence that what I posted earlier is ...

I think this just looks at B.S. degrees (I haven&#...

It may be a small sample size, but small or not......

I think we astrophysicists may be benefiting from ...

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