This article is not pro-college. He's talking about correlation != causation. ie. going to college doesn't necessarily teach you anything you wouldn't get elsew

This article is not pro-college. He's talking about correlation != causation. ie. going to college doesn't necessarily teach you anything you wouldn't get elsewhere -- rather, it is an indication of what kind of person you are (the kind of person who goes to college... who is more likely to be smart than the kind of person who doesn't.) Hence the relation to Firefox: just like college, using Firefox doesn't actually make you smarter (though an ignorant view of the statistics might make you think so) -- but the fact that you are using it in the first place, says something about the kind of person you are.