Correlating subjects
A question from Dorai get me thinking: does being good at maths help in programming? I don’t have a personal view. But since Reportbee has data on the Class 12 examination results for the last three years, we thought we could do a bit of analysis. Here’s the correlation of the scores of various subjects with Computer Science. Correlation Subject 0.79 CHEMISTRY 0.79 PHYSICS 0.75 ENGLISH 0.75 MATHEMATICS 0.72 LANGUAGE 0.67 BIOLOGY 0.66 ECONOMICS 0.66 COMMERCE 0.65 ACCOUNTANCY 0.56 HISTORY 0.52 GEOGRAPHY It almost breaks neatly into four groups. ...