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It really isn't useful to base discussions on the nonsensical graphs in this series, which seem to be an artifact of how and when people are being surveyed.
by aheilbut 14y ago
It really isn't useful to base discussions on the nonsensical graphs in this series, which seem to be an artifact of how and when people are being surveyed.
- jbdeboer 14y agoIndeed. None of these numbers answer the question "How many graduates who wanted a job could not find one?".
- bikenaga 14y ago(From the 2010-2011 final survey done by the American Math. Society, for new Math Ph.D.s, which I linked elsewhere) Unknown (U.S.): 85 Not seeking employment: 18 Still seeking employment: 53 Unknown (non U.S.): 83 If you count all of these as "unemployed" (which is probably a significant overestimate), that's 239 out of 1653 new Ph.D.'s, or around 14.4%. If you count only "Still seeking employment" as "unemployed", that's around 3.2%. But I don't know how the numbers in the sciences or in engineering would be similar to those in math.