Keep in mind that there are hardly any CL posts that don't mention another discipline, so that blue bar mostly consists of posts from a few of the other bars. Similarly, some posts mention both phonetics and phonology, or syntax and semantics, etc. The raw post count is even smaller.
Also, a lot of people are now really anchored in more than one area, socio and phonetics or phonology and historical.
A key piece to be able to compare things would be how many people are finishing in which areas ... are there tons more syntax dissertations than morphology ones or vice versa?
Yes! ProQuest would be pretty easy. Something I've wondered about in the past is the number of applications for a given job. That introduces other variables, like how desirable the gig is, but I bet there are trends.
Nice figures! Don’t have the ability to detect reposts of failed searches? I hear about this worry all the time for computational searches, and very rarely for other sub fields.
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A key piece to be able to compare things would be how many people are finishing in which areas ... are there tons more syntax dissertations than morphology ones or vice versa?