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- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Path: sparky!uunet!secapl!Cookie!frank
- From: frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams)
- Subject: Re: Minimum standards for math "competency"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.200403.111578@Cookie.secapl.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:04:03 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.165157.14599@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1339@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Organization: Security APL, Inc.
- Keywords: math competency education university college standards
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- In article <1339@kepler1.rentec.com> rjfrey@rentec.com (Robert J Frey) writes:
- > o The Jobs Almanac's top 5 jobs are all mathematically based:
- > actuary, computer programmer, systems analyst, mathematician
- > and statistician.
-
- It appears that a number of people are doubting this, based on the
- assumption that these are the jobs which [will] have the most jobs opening
- up. On that basis, it is very dubious. A more plausible assumption is that
- these are the jobs with the greatest *shortfall* of qualified applicants
- compared to positions to be filled. (Although I would still wonder about
- including "mathematician". Maybe it's the *ratio* of jobs to applicants.)
-
- Then again, the Almanac may be using some other criteria entirely.
-