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Quantitative Psychology

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.

 

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