College Degrees by Gender

masgrada · 2009-12-20T04:58:16+00:00

Poor choice of graphs.... C'mon now!

zahlman · 2009-12-20T08:31:00+00:00

Oh wow, I thought that was degree agnostic. I didn't realize that was Science/Engineering degree's.

I don't know if I believe that, in fact, I'm pretty sure I don't. So I went to the NSF website which is where those statistics were from, and looked at what they counted as science and engineering degrees.

Biology/Agriculture (30k total in 1966/90k in 2006)
Earth/Atmosphere/Ocean (2k in 1966/4k in 2006)
Mathematics and CS (20k in 1966/60k in 2006)
Physics/Chem (16k in 1966/16k in 2006)
Psychology (20k in 1966/88k in 2006)
Social Science (65k in 1966/150k in 2006)
Engineering (36k in 1966/70k in 2006)

In 1966 ~200k took science/engi degrees. In 2006 the number is around 470k.

So it's not really all that surprising, or interesting for that matter, it's just statistics doing what they do best, which is being misleading.

rellin · 2009-12-20T06:26:25+00:00

Any other science/engineering majors in disbelief ? As an ECE major, I don't think I've ever seen more than one female to every 11 males in one of my classes. Yes, I actually do count. Some other engineering majors have it easier though (general/industrial).

noelsusman · 2009-12-20T16:25:09+00:00

What does this have to do with Men's Rights?

bvanmidd · 2009-12-20T07:23:52+00:00

I like how the second and last graph have the exact same numbers, different percentages, and that neither matches the graph at all.

Title	College Degrees by Gender
Author	salvia_d
Upvotes	14
Comments	25
Date	December 20, 2009 4:20 AM UTC (16 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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