https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/john-j-conlon/John J ConlonHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/what-jobs-come-to-mind-stereotypes-about-fields-of-study/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/what-jobs-come-to-mind-stereotypes-about-fields-of-study/<p>Conlon and Patel test whether students stereotype the link between college majors and occupations — that is, whether they exaggerate the likelihood that majors lead to their &ldquo;representative&rdquo; careers (those most overrepresented among a major&rsquo;s graduates relative to other majors, as measured by a likelihood ratio in US census data). The representative career for each major is intuitive: doctors for biology/chemistry, lawyers for political science, counselors for psychology, journalists for communications, artists for art, and so forth.</p>