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The article is basically correct, if not very deep. It doesn't take any kind of statistical analysis to see that STS majors are overly common on the football team, and Management Science and Engineering to a lesser extent.

He might have thought a little bit about whether there is a qualitative difference between 26% if the declared majors of football players at Stanford enrolled in Science, Technology, and Society versus 48% enrolled in Public Administration at Auburn. For example, from his numbers football players make up about 17% of the STS majors at Stanford. Football players make up 55% of the STS majors at Auburn. He also might have thought about what other majors are represented.

He even might have examined the school and football program he knows best - Penn State


I did find it interesting to look at both the Stanford Hunanities and Sciences enrollment numbers he links as well the overall degrees by major list I found on a related site. I also found it odd that Stanford quit releasing this information - or at least quit posting it.
https://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/regi...lors-09-10

Things I noticed:
Human Biology remains the most popular major at Stanford
Economics remains the #2 major. Didn't there use to be a choice of a BS or BA in Econ? Now it's a BA.
I don't remember seeing numbers as a student, but that was what we all thought the big two were.
Despite Stanford's reputation as an overly engineering oriented school, the engineering numbers are not overly high, at least 4.5 years ago.
In fact, Stanford awarded half again as many BAs as BSs (1042 vs 683)

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Anyone have anything to add?

The article is basically correct, if not very deep. It doesn't take any kind of statistical analysis to see that STS majors are overly common on the football team, and Management Science and Engineering to a lesser extent.

He might have thought a little bit about whether there is a qualitative difference between 26% if the declared majors of football players at Stanford enrolled in Science, Technology, and Society versus 48% enrolled in Public Administration at Auburn. For example, from his numbers football players make up about 17% of the STS majors at Stanford. Football players make up 55% of the STS majors at Auburn. He also might have thought about what other majors are represented.

He even might have examined the school and football program he knows best - Penn State


I did find it interesting to look at both the Stanford Hunanities and Sciences enrollment numbers he links as well the overall degrees by major list I found on a related site. I also found it odd that Stanford quit releasing this information - or at least quit posting it.
https://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/regi...lors-09-10

Things I noticed:
Human Biology remains the most popular major at Stanford
Economics remains the #2 major. Didn't there use to be a choice of a BS or BA in Econ? Now it's a BA.
I don't remember seeing numbers as a student, but that was what we all thought the big two were.
Despite Stanford's reputation as an overly engineering oriented school, the engineering numbers are not overly high, at least 4.5 years ago.
In fact, Stanford awarded half again as many BAs as BSs (1042 vs 683)