What is the distribution of doctorates conferred by field and sex? Here are the

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What is the distribution of doctorates conferred by field and sex? Here are the counts from the most popular fields in a given year. The physical sciences include mathematics and computer and informations sciences; the life sciences include agricultural sciences/natural resources, biological/biomedical sciences, and health sciences; and the social sciences include psychology Male Female Total Engineering Physical sciences Life sciences Social sciences Education Humanities Other Total 6,605 6,471 5,409 3,566 1,579 2,654 1,574 27,858 8,566 9,100 6,77612,185 8,505 4,954 5,501 3,077 24,030 51,888 1,961 2,629 4,939 3,375 2,847 1,503 What is the conditional probability that the recipient is male, given that the degree is in education? (Round your answer to four decimal places.) eBook

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P(male/education)=1579/4954

=0.3187

Therefore the conditional probability that the recipient is male,given that the degree is in education is 0.3187

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