What a stat !!!

[RX CARE]

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I just graduated yesterday with my BS in Biochem, and the speaker at our ceremony said that the total number of people holding degrees in the US make about 20% of population, and the total number of people with science degrees make less than 1% of the US population. 1% ????!!!!! 😱 I'm still in awe of that stat!!!
And I sit and wonder why science jobs(BS level) are still kinda a hassle....with competition and relevant experience requirements.
Any thoughts on that stat??

 

[Omegadramon]

Wow...it makes you wonder why us science majors aren't treated like Kings or Queens. At the end of the day, we're very important in the advancement and sustaing of technological progress.

 

[fmbzp5]

I just graduated yesterday with my BS in Biochem, and the speaker at our ceremony said that the total number of people holding degrees in the US make about 20% of population, and the total number of people with science degrees make less than 1% of the US population. 1% ????!!!!! 😱 I'm still in awe of that stat!!!
And I sit and wonder why science jobs(BS level) are still kinda a hassle....with competition and relevant experience requirements.
Any thoughts on that stat??

You should know by the image you use that no one cares about science when pro athletics pays millions. People don't want to see you discover, they just want the benefits 🙂

 

[DrBowtie]

Wow...it makes you wonder why us science majors aren't treated like Kings or Queens. At the end of the day, we're very important in the advancement and sustaing of technological progress.

For the same amount of money you expect graduating with a BS, places can bring over a foreign Post-Doc for the same price with much higher qualifications.

 

[nerv12345]

yay i'm glad to part of a group that only constists of 1% of the population 🙂

 

[ButlerPharm.D.]

Technically you are a very small part of the population, how many of you have heard this before, "Be grateful for this opportunity. Don't take it for granted. The following trope, originated in 1990 by Dartmouth professor Donella Meadows and elaborated since by various individuals and organizations, may drive the pointhome: If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There would be:
• 60 Asians
• 14 Africans
• 14 from the Western hemisphere, both north and south12 Europeans
• 50 would be female
• 50 would be male
• 73 would be non-white
• 27 would be white
• 67 would be non-Christian
• 33 would be Christian
• 5 people would possess 32% of the entire world's wealth, and all 5
would be from the United States
• 80 would live in substandard housing
• 50 would suffer from malnutrition
• 1 would be near death
• 1 would be newborn
• and 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education*"

* Statistics based on a "State of the Village Report," the original version of
which was composed in 1990 by Donella Meadows, and modified in subsequent
years by various authors and agencies, most recently ODT
(www.odt.org/pop.htm) in 2005, which has made its statistics available for public use without copyright. Also cf. "History and sources of the ‘State of the Village Report'" at www.odt.org/popvillagesources.htm.

 

[calipharming]

I think the number of people who hold science degrees still outnumber the number of jobs available. I don't know if this 1% stat is true or not. But it's too many. This is especially true for Ph.D.'s in the sciences. There's just more Ph.D.'s than open positions. The situation is better for people with bachelors, but it's still not good. It makes sense because every year, schools around the country graduate a lot of people with bachelors in the sciences. That's why if you want a really good job, you need an advanced professional degree like the Pharm.D.