http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/04/12/old-debate-more-participants-what-do-80-of-phd-holders-do-for-a-career/ Science in Canada: Issues affecting trainees Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/04/12/old-debate-more-participants-what-do-80-of-phd-holders-do-for-a-career/comment-page-1/#comment-1640 Interested Citizen Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:27:50 +0000 http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/?p=340#comment-1640 re your next blog... it will be intruiging to read what metrics, other than published papers, you think could be sufficiently robust to enable useful comparisons between laboratories (e.g. when assessing funding applications, etc) re your next blog… it will be intruiging to read what metrics, other than published papers, you think could be sufficiently robust to enable useful comparisons between laboratories (e.g. when assessing funding applications, etc)

]]> http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/04/12/old-debate-more-participants-what-do-80-of-phd-holders-do-for-a-career/comment-page-1/#comment-684 Beth Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:56:09 +0000 http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/?p=340#comment-684 I'm curious, Sonn - where did you get the 65-70% from? I’m curious, Sonn – where did you get the 65-70% from?

]]> http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/04/12/old-debate-more-participants-what-do-80-of-phd-holders-do-for-a-career/comment-page-1/#comment-629 Dave Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:10:41 +0000 http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/?p=340#comment-629 Hi Sonn, The 80% number is from the National Science Foundation in the US which shows that just 19.6% of new professors had obtained their degree within the last six years. I have yet to obtain comprehensive statistics in Canada. Remember that this is for people who get a PhD and not people that are in a post doc. Lots of PhD holders do not start a post doc at all. Dave Hi Sonn,
The 80% number is from the National Science Foundation in the US which shows that just 19.6% of new professors had obtained their degree within the last six years. I have yet to obtain comprehensive statistics in Canada. Remember that this is for people who get a PhD and not people that are in a post doc. Lots of PhD holders do not start a post doc at all.
Dave

]]> http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/2010/04/12/old-debate-more-participants-what-do-80-of-phd-holders-do-for-a-career/comment-page-1/#comment-628 Sonn Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:49:59 +0000 http://scienceadvocacy.org/Blog/?p=340#comment-628 How did you come to the 80% figure? Isn't it more like 65-70% to be accurate? How did you come to the 80% figure? Isn’t it more like 65-70% to be accurate?

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