Brian Rushton

@quid Posted another one that got a few thousand views ovrrnight

@quid I had a couple that didn't do good, but I'm still trying, but less often. The ones that do really well are ones that students can identify with or have strong opinions about, and I haven't seen that many recently.

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@AlexanderGruber I got some good answers from both of my questions tagged [series]

This questions is only ~500 views from being the next 'famous question'.

Congratulations! I was just coming here to post this. Good question and answers!

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We just got our second question with 4000 views

Well, I made a math mistake :p. Many jobs on mathjobs.org gets ~600 applicants each. Now, I know that people apply to dozens of jobs, so it's not an accurate count; perhaps there are 10 times as many phds as research positions. And I guess a research position to me would be one where the primary focus of your evaluations for promotion and tenure is your research capability.

but noone's getting them

so the jobs may be great

The point is, there are like 100 Math PhD's for every research position

Ya got me

The numbers they gave are for large public universities, so probably more like the california schools or UT Austin

bls.gov/ooh/math/mathematicians.htm

In industry, the average salary for a research mathematician is $100,000

Those numbers are for the bigger universities, though'

It's not huge, but you get summers off and have very flexible schedules

A new hire at a research institution makes around $80,000

Yeah; a full professor can make over $200,000

it's the ones that just do teaching that don't get paid much

Honestly, research mathematicians get paid a lot

I was pretty shocked at the difference between a job at a PhD institution vs. a Bachelor's institution

I know it's a joke, but I looked this up after you said that: ams.org/notices/201304/rnoti-p426.pdf

lol

The funny thing is, though, that 'teaching' mathematicians outnumber 'research' mathematicians at least 10 to 1, and maybe 100 or more to 1

Because the research is so precise, even really focused questions on teaching feel 'chatty'

Yes, that's exactly what I think it meant. It's so interesting that mathematicians split their time between mathematical research (which is so exact and precise) and teaching (which is so ambiguous). I think you mentioned something like that in one of your posts.

I wonder what your mom would think of it… if she says something like "I wish they had questions about _______" you should pass it on! lol

A lot of people wanted to ask questions about how to teach math and about education in general (tests, chalkboard use, etc.) and wanted a place for it.

I think this question is what started the site proposal: meta.math.stackexchange.com/q/12470/51970

@JonEricson Now that we're out of private beta, I'm interested in knowing; what did you guys expect coming in? Did it seem like this might be a problem site? If you can't say, that's okay.

That's a great idea! I type on a Nook and it gets frustrating.

Haha

Haha, someone retagged one of my questions with the 'homework' tag. I thought, 'hey, that's a bad tag!', and tghen I realized that it means very different things on MSE and MESE.

Though the questions are lower, because of the answer ratio we had more total posts than them before they went public.

I also think it's impressive that the total number of questions and answers is comparable to expatriates SE; that the number of visits a day and the number of high-reputation users at all levels is higher; and that the answer ratio is much higher.

I think this site does have great potential. One of the reasons it started so quickly is because a lot of us heavily advertised it. Once it hits public beta, I plan on advertising it strongly for the first few weeks. There are people on other websites wondering how this proposal is doing. Even on stackexchange, I saw people posting math ed questions. They were told to wait a few days till this site starts.

@JonEricson Thanks; I've been secretly worried that the private beta will get killed off as not viable. It seems to happen occasionally, and because there have been so many subjective questions, I've wondered if we're on the blacklist. So it's reassuring that a public beta is in the future.

Since we haven't heard anything similar, does that mean that they're not as pleased with us?

I saw this post on Expatriates Stackexchange:meta.expatriates.stackexchange.com/questions/104/…

I'll repost it on Meta here.

@Skytso They have a list here:meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/…

@MarkusKlein if there are no hiccups, it should last 7 days from the time it began, so I would expect it to become public on Friday if the overlords are pleased.

@skullpatrol It's so that any weird issues can be workedout in private. Also, it allows people to build up enough reputation to moderate the site once we start getting more visitors. It should only last a week.

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