[318] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: women & success at MIT (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Sun Apr 29 14:34:01 2001
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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:33:11 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
I think this was meant for the list...
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To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: women & success at MIT
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:48:32 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 23:02:19 -0400
From: Michael R Hall <mikehall@MIT.EDU>
The chart summed both graduate and undergraduate women at MIT because
MIT doesn't have public records available of the grad/ugrad female
split for several years in the span we covered.
Mike
>
>I assumed the graph you are talking about was for grads and
>undergrads. Perhaps someone from the *Tech* can explain these poorly
>labelled charts?
>
>The "ruler method" here doesn't take into account differences in class
>size from year to year, which might be non-gender-neutral.
>
>But I wouldn't be surprised if there was a gender differential in the
>combined dropout/transfer out rate.
>
>-B.
>
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