Degrees are a stupid metric but they're a metric no less. Sadly people like to mistake them for general qualifications and think an unrelated degree justifies h

Degrees are a stupid metric but they're a metric no less. Sadly people like to mistake them for general qualifications and think an unrelated degree justifies higher pay (although this is a more general problem, not really something any individual company can easily fix). It's cargo cult thinking, really. It's not about the degree but what the individual degree represents. We like to assign unrelated meanings to it because we like easy answers.