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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

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Computer Software and Media Apps 68.4 1,160. Overall, the number of statistics bachelor’s degrees has grown from 526 in 2003 to 1,678 in 2013. For instance, since 2003, the number of schools granting undergraduate statistics degrees has increased from 74 to more than 110 in 2013.

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PROOF POINTS: The value of one-size-fits-all math homework

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Roughly 3,000 teachers and 130,000 students were using it during the 2022-23 school year, according to the husband and wife team of Neil and Cristina Heffernan who run ASSISTments, a nonprofit based at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where Neil is a computer science professor. The studies aren’t able to explain that exactly.