[BlindMath] [nfbcs] Science division reach its 2017 STEM scholarship goal

[Donald Winiecki]

Developers of websites can seed their code with search terms that Google
then captures and uses in its pagerank algorithm.  Savvy website developers
can do a lot to promote the visibility of their websites in this way.  I
think this is pretty-much expected and state of the art by now.  I don't
know if Google or other search tools do anything to pro-rate websites that
do such seeding.

The outcome is that a Google (or other) search is not necessarily an
adequate means to locate reliable data

But I will add my concern over the consideration that pay is the only, or
the primary, valued attribute of jobs.  Research in behavioral psych has
indicated that above a certain level of compensation, pay is not usually
considered a rewarding factor.

*Quality of life doesn't come only from salary.*


*Of course we're now getting into the shoulders of William's initial
statements -- as should be the case.  It is only when we start looking
around the issue that we identify what are the factors that allow it to be
an issue at all.*
Best,

_don

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*Professor of Ethics & Morality in Professional Practice*
Boise State University, College of Engineering
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On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 8:55 AM, John G Heim via BlindMath <
blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> A site called payscale.com dominates google's pages on which college
> degrees pay the most. No matter what I google, I get hits from their web
> site first. I never heard of it until now. Having said that though, their
> list of highest paying college degrees and highest paying careers is very
> heavily weighted toward STEM fields. Business/management also does well.
> [See links below.] The question of aptitude is a very important on, of
> course. I think I'm going to post separately about that though.
>
> http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-
> pay-you-back/bachelors
> http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-
> pay-you-back/graduate-degrees
>
>
> On 05/10/2017 08:59 AM, Mike Gorse via BlindMath wrote:
>
>> I'm glad that the scholarship was funded. If blind students are
>> interested in a STEM field and have the aptitude, then they should be
>> able to study it and shouldn't be discouraged. At the same time, if a
>> student has no interest in anything STEM-related but feels passionate
>> about, say, helping disadvantaged children, then education or social
>> work might be what s/he should study. While the prevalence of jobs and
>> expected salaries are things that students should consider, their
>> abilities and interests are also factors--if a student studies a field
>> that s/he isn't well suited to, the s/he may have trouble finding work
>> anyhow.
>>
>> A friend (who isn't blind) just posted this, while complaining that he
>> was encouraged to study biomedical engineering when there are virtually
>> no jobs in the field, according to him:
>>
>> https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/stem-still-no-shortage-c6f6eed505c1
>>
>> Someone else posted a link to this paper in response, which argues that
>> STEM is to heterogeneous to say that there is or isn't a shortage.
>>
>> https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-ste
>> m-surplus-yes-and-yes.htm
>>
>>
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