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> departures outnumbered new hires last year [2025] by a ratio of 11 to one, resulting in a net loss of 4224 STEM Ph.D.s
by stopbulying 9mo ago
> departures outnumbered new hires last year [2025] by a ratio of 11 to one, resulting in a net loss of 4224 STEM Ph.D.s
- michtzik 9mo agoYup, this inspires great confidence in the source. > 10,109 ... left their jobs > departures outnumbered new hires last year by a ratio of 11 to one That means that there were ~919 new hires, and thus it seems that 10,109 minus 919 equals > a net loss of 4224 It appears that the "11 to one" ratio is the average, across agencies, of each individual ratio. It's left as an exercise to the reader to determine whether that average has any meaning at all.