Academic fields of readers

So with over 1100 votes in our poll from the other day, here are the results:

Readers: what is your main academic field?

Philosophy               62% Law    5% Medicine    1% History    1% English/Comparative Literature/Foreign Languages    3% Theology or Religious Studies    1% Psychology or Cognitive Science    1% Political Science or Public Policy    2% Economics    1% Linguistics    1% Other social sciences (e.g., sociology, anthropology etc.)    1% Biology    1% Mathematics    1% Computer Science    1% Other natural sciences (e.g., chemistry, physics, earth sciences)    1% None of the above    3% I am not an academic    14%

Unsurprisingly, philosophy was the primary academic field of readers (with over 700 votes, accounting for not quite two-thirds of the responses).   5% come from law (59 votes), while 14% are neither faculty nor students (135 votes).   3% (33 votes) study or teach English, Comparative Literature or foreign languages & literatures, while 2% (28) come from Political Science or Public Policy.  The 1% in many other fields conceals differentials in vote totals, ranging from 17 votes in each of History, Medicine, and Psychology/Cognitive Science, to just 6 in Computer Science.  I'm pleased that the blog is of interest to a significant number from other academic disciplines, as well as to those outside the academy.

Thanks to all for reading!