So with nearly 800 responses to yesterday afternoon's poll, here are the results:
What subject did you almost major in (or undertake postgraduate study in) other than philosophy?
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I'd be curious to hear from readers about the "other fields not mentioned" (it occurs to me religion or theology may have been a common one). Natural sciences accounted for 26% of the responses, social sciences for 22%, and the humanities for 25%. English got the most votes (14%) followed by Law (12%) (the latter result may be skewed by my readership, which may be higher among law & philosophy faculty and students than some other subfields, though this is just a guess). I strongly suspect that if we looked only at faculty at top PGR-ranked departments, we would find the skew in favor of natural sciences even higher, but that's just based on what I know about many but not all faculty at those departments.
Thoughts from readers? Those who chose "other fields," what fields? Comments may take awhile to appear (busy day), so please submit them only once. Thanks. (UPDATE 2 pm CST: Typepad has been having problems today, so if you've been unable to submit a comment, please try again a bit later.)