Job Outlook for Quantitative Psychologists Table 1. Number of Job Advertisements in Various Areas of Psychology in 1991-1996 versus number of earned doctorates in these areas during the same six years. Area Number of Job Advertisements Number of Earned Doctorates Job Advertisements per Earned Doctorate Cognitive 413 674 .61 Developmental 401 1040 .39 Experimental 408 844 .48 Industrial Organizational 349 876 .40 Physiological 135 446 .30 Social 553 877 .63 TOTAL OF ABOVE 2259 4757 .47   Quantitative 292 122 2.40 Note: Counts of Job Ads taken from Bell and Gordie (1997). Counts of Earned Doctorates taken from NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates, as compiled by the APA Office of Research, January, 2006.		Quantitative Psychology Home List of PhD Cencentrations in Quantitative Psychology How to Prepare for Doctoral Study in Quantitative Psychology Mathematical Psychology, a Related Research Approach Educational Psychology Programs in Quantitative Methodology Links to Other Web Resources Job Outlook for Quantitative Psychologists Task Force for Increasing the Number of Quantitative Psychologists

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