Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences

Re:Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences by Confusion on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:53AM (#14968775)

  If math vs. engineering is a mystery that can't be 
  explained by streotypes,

Scott gives an explanation in the article. Interestingly, it's exactly the suggestion commenter peacetreefrog puts forward: relatively many math graduates become teachers. And teaching is a 'person' thing.

As for engineering: the variation within engineering disciplines is much smaller than the variation between engineering and other disciplines and since we already have a hard time explaining the large difference, let's not worry about the small differences. Perhaps chemical engineering is perceived to be about 'people' more often.

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Re:Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences by peacetreefrog on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:09PM (#14975367)

Nice! Just went back and checked, I subscribe to SSC and read the original version via email, that didn't really get into the math major thing. Scott must have added the note on math afterwards (maybe he reads HN?) - anyway, cool to see it born out by data.

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