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By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:39:50 +0000

If African-American women were included in this survey, the results would be much worse. I guarantee that this chart is based primarily on White women Ph.D’s. I’m also willing to bet that the chart was developed by the dominate group as well.

By: pat h

pat h — Sun, 08 May 2011 16:30:51 +0000

I suspect that by including only PhD, those women in medicine (with MDs) are overlooked.
>50% of incoming medical students are female
40% of income general surgeons are female! (http://www.facs.org/news/jacs/gendergap0411.html)

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 08 May 2011 00:11:41 +0000

My uni is a science and engineering school and has the associated gender imbalance (though this took me a while to notice as I am in a department with “bio” in the name). There’s a definite poetry to what the women at uni say of the men: “The odds are good, but the goods are odd”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 07 May 2011 19:42:50 +0000

Maybe you should reread Huff because the whole point of the book is that it doesn’t matter how skilled you are at analyzing your data or how well you can program a software package to produce the plot you want.

The point is that the people looking at your charts are not skilled at analyzing your data. How you present your data will affect what they think.

Software packages do not bias the data one way or the other. They only produce what the user asked for. Four links discussing how to get a software package to produce a given output also is irrelevant at discussing what graphs are and aren’t deceptive.

In all of your well researched links, how many of them discussed what the perception of the graph will be? I didn’t see a single mention. Deception requires perception and if your links do not discuss perception then how can they address if a graph is deceptive?

By: shale

shale — Sat, 07 May 2011 18:23:41 +0000

I’d just like to second Kieran’s comments.

By: syd

syd — Sat, 07 May 2011 04:34:05 +0000

“And definitely, if you would look up job ads, there are certainly more vacancies out there for PhDs in Engineering, Medical Sciences, Business Studies etc., as there are for English PhDs”

The reason for that is not that Psychologists won’t get hired or there are only limited jobs for Psychologists. It’s because more people major in psych, English lit, and so forth than engineering and medical science, and those fields are less flexible. They’re actually recruiting from other countries because few American students go for those fields. Which, in cases like engineering, may be partially because more than half of the higher-education going population (women) are discouraged and conditioned against trying for those spaces from childhood