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Re:Grad School Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate by vaksel on Thursday October 02, 2008 @06:40PM (#322226)
not that surprising really, when you can't find a job, going to grad school pretty much gives you a 2 year extension to wait for the market to bounce back.
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Re:Grad School Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate by neilc on Thursday October 02, 2008 @06:42PM (#322229)
It certainly confirms one's intuition, but the degree of correlation is pretty surprising to me, assuming this is real data.
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Re:Grad School Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate by timr on Thursday October 02, 2008 @07:50PM (#322280)
He cites the sources in the comic, and he's an engineer by training, so I'm inclined to believe that he knows how to do the calculation. :-)
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Re:Grad School Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate by jwilliams on Thursday October 02, 2008 @11:09PM (#322384)
Looks like legitimate data.

Even if real, doesn't necessarily mean they aren't confounded by another factor.

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Re:Grad School Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate by lallysingh on Friday October 03, 2008 @01:03AM (#322443)
Yeah, but that doesn't help us who've done this strategy a few times already... :-P
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