Yale Women vs. Yale Women

I wondered whether this article by Yale grad Louise Story would cause a stir at Yale.

The interviews found that 85 of the students, or roughly 60 percent, said that when they had children, they planned to cut back on work or stop working entirely. About half of those women said they planned to work part time, and about half wanted to stop work for at least a few years.

It only took a little bit of poking around on the YDN web site to see a response.

The only evidence Story referenced to prove this thesis was a subjective and misleading study. Only 138 undergraduate women at Yale responded to an e-mail survey, but The Times presented this self-selected sample as representative of all women at elite colleges. Any student in Statistics 100 would know that conclusions drawn from such a poorly designed survey are wholly unreliable due in large part to response bias.

Personally, I liked the two respondents who said they expected their husband to stay home.