A Major I Love or A Major That Makes Money?- Can I learn to love a major?

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@discoinferno

Like I said before the Georgetown data is mid-career so less illustrative of what a degree is worth straight out of college on its own merit, but it’s still fun to look at.

@HieronymusBosch

1. You’ve tacitly consented that in posting the Georgetown report, you’ve actually falsified your own initial claim

The claim is to be understood as coming right out of college as a traditional student (no other prior experience factors i.e. military or other work/education). Mid-career would not be a traditional student right out of college, therefore his claim stands and could not be falsified simply by posting that data.</p>

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@discoinferno

Of course it pertains to California. It’s Cal Poly.

@HieronymusBosch

2. You accept that the Cal Poly data is not particularly reliable due to relatively small sample size.

No, disco may have been using Cal Poly as an example of how to research your possible annual income right out of college based on your major and location. The OP can look up certain schools based on their supposed major and review the reported salary data accordingly and by historical trend.</p>

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@HieronymusBosch

3. You seem to not understand that unrepresentative sample means exactly that: the sample is unrepresentative, and thus cannot be generalized to a larger population.

Again, no specific school site will reflect the population as a whole, and it seems those data sets are examples to the claim. You want the nation as a whole? Look to indipendent studies that look for that exact thing or reasearch BLS.</p>

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@HieronymusBosch

Perhaps you should think about taking a social sci stat course.

Perhaps you should take a literature analysis course? It seems like you’re not inferring anything remotely corresponding in the words.</p>