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Dropping out of high school isn't "doing everything wrong" and finishing college is pretty far from "doing everything right" so this seems to be a little bit o
by jimmies 10y ago
Dropping out of high school isn't "doing everything wrong" and finishing college is pretty far from "doing everything right" so this seems to be a little bit of editorial journalism.
From the paper: "Children who go on to achieve a college degree, irrespective of their parents’ income, are more likely to make it to the top income quintile [...] Bottom-income children without a diploma have a 54% probability of remaining on the bottom rung as adults."
So really what it says is that you have a much better shot in life being educated regardless of who you are. But if you don't like to stay in school, you'd better be rich, because there are some chances you will end up being rich anyway. If you are poor and don't stay in school, you are very likely just live your life miserably.
- randomdata 10y ago> So really what it says is that you have a much better shot in life being educated regardless of who you are. Not quite. All it says that the people who are able to do well in school also are able to do well in the workplace. If you want to try and derive causation here, the simplest and most reasonable explanation is that the qualities that allowed them to do well in school are also what allowed them to do well in the workplace. It does not seem shocking at all to think that those who have drive, desire, ability, etc. perform better in everything they do, be it education or the workplace. The idea that schooling magically turns you into a new person able to finally succeed for the first time seems like a huge stretch.
- jimmies 10y agoThat's better. There is some back-and-forth between the how much drive one has correlated with how far can one get in education, but I totally agree that you have a more direct narrative of what the paper claims.