document.write( "Question 1047172: What is the distribution of doctorates conferred by field and sex? Here are the counts from the most popular fields in a given year. The physical sciences include mathematics and computer and informations sciences; the life sciences include agricultural sciences/natural resources, biological/biomedical sciences, and health sciences; and the social sciences include psychology.
\n" ); document.write( " Male Female Total
\n" ); document.write( "Engineering 6,597 1,953 8,550
\n" ); document.write( "Physical sciences 6,463 2,621 9,084
\n" ); document.write( "Life sciences 5,401 6,768 12,169
\n" ); document.write( "Social sciences 3,558 4,931 8,489
\n" ); document.write( "Education 1,571 3,367 4,938
\n" ); document.write( "Humanities 2,654 2,847 5,501
\n" ); document.write( "Other 1,566 1,495 3,061
\n" ); document.write( "Total 27,810 23,982 51,792\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "What is the conditional probability that the degree is in education, given that the recipient is female? (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
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What is the distribution of doctorates conferred by field and sex? Here are the counts from the most popular fields in a given year. The physical sciences include mathematics and computer and informations sciences; the life sciences include agricultural sciences/natural resources, biological/biomedical sciences, and health sciences; and the social sciences include psychology.
\n" ); document.write( " Male Female Total
\n" ); document.write( "Engineering 6,597 1,953 8,550
\n" ); document.write( "Physical sciences 6,463 2,621 9,084
\n" ); document.write( "Life sciences 5,401 6,768 12,169
\n" ); document.write( "Social sciences 3,558 4,931 8,489
\n" ); document.write( "Education 1,571 3,367 4,938
\n" ); document.write( "Humanities 2,654 2,847 5,501
\n" ); document.write( "Other 1,566 1,495 3,061
\n" ); document.write( "Total 27,810 23,982 51,792\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "What is the conditional probability that the degree is in education, given that the recipient is female? (Round your answer to four decimal places.)
\n" ); document.write( "Ans:: 3367/23982
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