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I have seen it argued that the reason for this is that employers are prohibited from using intelligence tests to evaluate job applicants, so they use years of e
by toasterlovin 9y ago
I have seen it argued that the reason for this is that employers are prohibited from using intelligence tests to evaluate job applicants, so they use years of education as a proxy for intelligence.
- AstralStorm 9y agoWhich it is not. Mostly it is a proxy for being able to deal with terrible bureaucracies (maybe useful?) and having enough money to live through it. (classist)
- Scea91 9y agoThere is certainly a reasonable degree of correlation judging from the data I have observed around me. But maybe it is different in my country because we have universities paid by taxes.
- toasterlovin 9y agoIn some ways it is probably a better way to evaluate somebody’s fitness for the working world, since it requires some degree of intelligence and the ability to trudge through crap you don’t like. But it is an awfully expensive way to evaluate people.