<p>Came across an interesting article, have a read:</p>
<p>America's</a> science job conundrum - Fortune Management</p>
<p>i was under the impression that these days it's hard enough for engineering to find a job, but according to this, which i know isn't a viable source, we don't haev enough people majoring in chemistry/biology/physics either. i personally think we do have enough, but labor from overseas is cheaper. just was curious and wanted to know the opinions of college students and working professionals alike who are in these fields. thoughts?</p>
<p>The article refers to growth rates, not the actual number of jobs compared to the number of graduates.</p>
<p>Just because dJ/dt is high does not mean that J > G now or in the short or medium term future.</p>
<p>Chemistry and biology majors have a rather hard time in the job market, because there are large numbers of people graduating in such majors (think of all of the pre-meds who did not get into medical school) and the lack of desirability from the point of view of the finance and computer software jobs that recruit physics and math majors for their math abilities.</p>
<p>I think you’re intuition is correct nanashi. Articles like that are a dime-a-dozen these days, and none of them seem to be interested in what’s actually happening in the trenches of the labor market.</p>
<p>Actually, it may be more due to the article’s writer and readers get confused because they are unable to properly understand the distinction between a variable (number of jobs) and the first derivative of that variable (growth in number of jobs).</p>
<p>ah yes good point, never thought of using calculus to understand this article better lol seeing as i’m fairly limited knowledge wise in that department, but yes it does mention the growth over the next 7 years or so, which according to it is about a million or so which isn’t anything to sneeze at, but nonetheless students are graduating every year in these degrees all over the country, especially in california so yes that’s where i was a little confused. myself know a couple of students who just graduated, having a tough time in California trying to find employment, wonder what they would say upon reading this…</p>
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<p>Maybe we need more engineering and science majors for these journalism positions so they don’t make these mistakes.</p>
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<p>Perhaps it is more of an incentive for business / journalism / social studies / humanities majors to pay attention in freshman calculus and realize that the concepts can apply to areas other than obvious ones like statistics, physics, and engineering.</p>
<p>Then again, there was also this:</p>
<p>[Medical</a> researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations An American Physics Student in England](<a href=“http://fliptomato.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2007/03/19/medical-researcher-discovers-integration-gets-75-citations/]Medical”>Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations | An American Physics Student in England)</p>