Understanding Interventions That Encourage Minorities to Pursue Research Careers Summary of a Workshop (2007) / Chapter Skim
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1 The Nature of the Problem
1 The Nature of the Problem
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. As our demographics change radically in the country, and as the competition is changing radically, we know we cannot retain American leadership without greater participation by the full range of American people.
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. We could double doctorate production by getting a good plumber." Furthermore, even when underrepresented minorities earn PhDs, they appear to be less likely than white doctorate recipients to conduct research at elite research universities.
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While the number of biological sciences doctorates awarded to white U.S. citizens and permanent residents stayed about the same from 1995 to 2005, growing from 3,115 to 3,337, the number of doctorates awarded to blacks rose from 107 to 158 (2.5 to 3.6 percent of the total)
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Asking interesting and answerable questions, designing persuasive research studies, and interpreting data appropriately will be necessary for convincing audiences that personal experiences may not always be correct. In many ways, the existing programs have been "borne out of what we intuitively think," according to DePass.
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"What sorts of interventions really have an impact? Are there interventions, say, at the college level, which not only influence the probability of going on to graduate school but also persist in encouraging increasing probabilities for an individual student going on to a particular path?
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"We cannot use the simple analogy of ‘let's reduce the problem,' because by reducing it to certain parameters that everybody agrees to, you are losing, in fact, the essence of what the issue can be," Zerhouni said. Today, social science researchers have not answered the three questions Berg specified.
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