Where are the majors?

Figure 14.1 suggests that the field of statistics in the US is spectacularly and uniquely unsuccessful in producing Bachelor’s degree graduates when compared with every other undergraduate major for which cognate Advanced Placement (AP) courses exist. In those same subject areas, statistics also pro...

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Published inPast, Present, and Future of Statistical Science pp. 177 - 180
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Chapman and Hall/CRC 2014
Subjects
Inclined
Undergraduate Major
Analytics Professionals
Conferred
AP Exam
Ba Ch Elo
Directory Majors
Conference Talk
Exemplary Teaching
Winning
Narrow
File Degree
AP Course
Broad Training
Ba Ch
Mathematics Department
Cited
Bachelor’s Level
High School Subject
Bachelor’s Degrees
Reached
Stanford
Curiosity
Subject Size
Undergraduate
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DOI10.1201/b16720-20

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Summary:Figure 14.1 suggests that the field of statistics in the US is spectacularly and uniquely unsuccessful in producing Bachelor’s degree graduates when compared with every other undergraduate major for which cognate Advanced Placement (AP) courses exist. In those same subject areas, statistics also produces by far the fewest Bachelor’s degrees when the normalization is taken as the number of doctoral degrees in that field. We are in an era in which demand for statistical/data scientists and analytics professionals is exploding. The puzzle is to decide whether this plot is spur to action or merely an irrelevant curiosity.
DOI:10.1201/b16720-20