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Same story, same paper, different writer, and now it's "engineering" and not the more generic "science." I have to admit I'm a little surprised at the NYT running pretty much the same story just 11 weeks apart.

Here's the link to the NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-scien...

And here's the HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196377

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It's the same topic but it's a different story. The science and engineering indicators report linked in the first paragraph hadn't even been published when the first story was written. Also she provides a link to the previous NYT story you've pointed out directly in her blog post (ctrl-f "As my colleague Christopher Drew wrote in an article in November").

I read this as a "If you liked that article you might want to check out some of this new data" sort of post.

In their defence they did link to the National Science Board published a lot of information on the topic so it wasn't total link bait.

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/

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