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You're comparing two different cohorts - newly graduated students, and everyone who has any student debt. Obviously the second group is going to have lower med
by djrogers 10y ago
You're comparing two different cohorts - newly graduated students, and everyone who has any student debt. Obviously the second group is going to have lower median and average, so comparing the two is pointless.
- godelski 10y agoBecause I think HN likes data I plotted some for ease. We can see that by linear fit the cost grows 2.5 times that of the number of students. The 2015 cost of school is 3.5 times that in 1990. The 2015 number of students is 1.47 that of 1990 students. Graph: https://i.imgur.com/Udj3leD.png https://i.imgur.com/Udj3leD.png Sources from: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_330.10.asp?current=yes https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_330.10.a... https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_105.20.asp?current=yes https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d15/tables/dt15_105.20.a... Note* 2015 students were estimated and slope is from linear fit.
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