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The post (and overall numbers) don't depend on the best students or the best colleges. In general, having a college degree has been positive financially for mos
by runako 11y ago
The post (and overall numbers) don't depend on the best students or the best colleges. In general, having a college degree has been positive financially for most students, over the course of their careers.
Part of the key is that degrees pay off over long periods of time in promotions and other career opportunities, so the advantage is not always apparent at age 17.
- randomdata 11y agoColleges (even the poor ones) employ selection processes to ensure that only the best and most willing students be able to achieve completion at all. What the parent is suggesting is that those who are selected via those processes might also just happen to be the best suited for the business world, irrespective of their education. For example, someone who has innate determination to receive a degree might also be determined to finish projects in the workplace, leading to better job opportunities over someone who is less innately determined. While someone with high determination and no degree may do just as well as any college graduate, since they are lumped into the group of people with low determination, we pass them off as outliers instead of looking at the most important features. The correlation is clear, but that does not mean there is causation.