Philosophy Degree Surprisingly Lucrative

Not for me yet but apparently on average it’s a first step to more lucrative careers than more than half of the rest of the majors on this interesting ranking.

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This entry was written by Daniel Fincke, posted on September 11, 2009 at 2:35 am, filed under Education, Philosophy and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Comments

  1. atwitter
    Posted September 11, 2009 at 1:44 pm | Permalink

    Hm. Look at their methodology, though:
    http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/salary-report.asp

    Nowhere does it say how exactly large the data sample was.
    Also, this is a bit fishy:

    All data used to produce PayScale’s Education Package were collected from employees who successfully completed PayScale’s employee survey.

    So, they don’t say how many surveys they gathered, they don’t say how they conducted their survey, and, in case it was something like “we will give out a survey now, anybody who feels like it can fill it out” <– a result biased towards successful respondents would be produced, because they would be more likely to want to fill out the survey in the first place.
    Hmm.

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  2. Daniel Fincke
    Posted September 11, 2009 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

    whyyyyy must you wreck everything with your stupid logic and scientifically rigorous standards???

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  3. atwitter
    Posted September 12, 2009 at 12:59 am | Permalink

    HAH FOILED AGAIN!

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