What is the first thing you notice when you see this picture of the Yale Statistics Dept.
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I agree with PP. if the OP wer to assign blame to Yale on this issue, they're way off base.
One thing I can probably assure you about this building. Having walked the halls of MIT one morning during class break, the one thing I discoverd is how unhygienic these geniouses can be. They smelled FOUL. |
Anonymous
| It seems to a mix of grad students and profs. Who knows if it's the entire department, or just the kids who were there that day. |
Anonymous
Why should a minute sample represent the US population? (I am a minority btw.) |
Anonymous
| OP doesn't understand statistics. |
Anonymous
| How many AAs study statistics in grad school? Very few. What you see in the picture is a pretty accurate representation of the types of students and professors you will see in the stats department at most schools. So if you think they are underrepresented you should find a way to encourage more AAs to study statistics--I'm sure that plenty of universities would be thrilled to have them. |
Anonymous
WTF? Maybe that is just the smell if jealousy PP? |
Anonymous
+1. Obviously |
Anonymous
| OP: were you just turned down admittance to the Yale statistics department? It is that time of year... |
Anonymous
| Spies |
Anonymous
| Asians |
Anonymous
| As a statistician- I think typical. |
Anonymous
| Mostly brunettes. |
Anonymous
| I went to Yale. There were lots of African-Americans, probably more than the 15% that they represent in the general population. But, you're right, they didn't study statistics. They also weren't in the English department with me. In terms of majors, they were concentrated in the hard sciences and a few other departments like economics and engineering. It seemed that most AA students were much more focused on getting into a high-paying professional field than were white students, probably because many more came to Yale as first or second generation college students. Asian students often wanted to go straight to graduate school and gravitated to fields that led to that path, probably because they had been taught to value these fields highly. The humanities, classics, and other fields that led to more open-ended paths after Yale and had less of a clear route to a certain profession tended to be much more white. Whites from less privileged backgrounds tended to choose majors similar to those chosen by the AA students. It made sense to me at the time. Students with a big safety net could afford to take a chance and be a classics major at Yale because their post-college path was eased by help from parents. Students with a smaller or no safety net tended to take a less risky, more certain route. |
Anonymous
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Interesting. As someone who has spent a lot of time with statisticians and has done a lot of hiring, my first rhought was "how many of these kids are American?"
Yes, yes I know they could all be citizens, but the sad fact is that we are not graduating enough people in the hard sciences and mathematics. As a result about half of the stats teams I know are from South Asia, particularly China. I am often concerned about the lack of minority presence in technical fields. But in this particular case my overriding reaction is that we are failing to encourage our kids of any race/ethnicity to go into these important disciplines. |
Anonymous
| Didn't go to Yale but there was exactly one AA in our entire engineering department. It was filled mostly with immigrant Asian men, mostly Chinese, Korean and Indian. That being said, there were hardly any women and Americans in the dept and there were no women science professors. There were a few women math profs though. |