Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in
by awillen on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:55AM
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of historian jobs in 2019 was 3500 - that's in the entire US.
So... incredibly rare, really.
Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in
by nitrogen on Saturday November 14, 2020 @11:40AM
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They did say "degree in history" rather than "job as historian" though.
Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in
by onion2k on Saturday November 14, 2020 @11:50AM
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Exactly. The number of people in the US workforce who have a history degree is a little over a million (https://datausa.io/profile/cip/history).
Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in
by lotsofpulp on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:08PM
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Undergraduate degrees are easy to get. Having a psychology degree doesn’t mean you’re a psychologists, a history degree doesn’t mean you’re a historian, and a math degree doesn’t mean you’re a mathematician.
The extremely large majority of people go on to work regular jobs that have nothing to do with their degree and lose much of the information they learned, if it was even substantial at all.
I don't know anyone who has a degree in History but that doesn't mean historians are especially unusual. All it means is that my network is quite small.
The same is true here. The fact few people know someone who has been affected by this problem doesn't mean the problem is unusual. It just means there are hundreds of millions of people who use Google and you know a few thousand at most.