> > • Education, defined as the average cost of tuition, fees, and room and board at a four-year public college. > What is education being overweight by a fact

> > • Education, defined as the average cost of tuition, fees, and room and board at a four-year public college. > What is education being overweight by a factor of several times? The other items are the annual cost of expenses that you incur every year. But education is only incurred 4 years out of the 80 years you're alive. Giving them the same weight as the other items is ridiculously misleading. That is strange. Education is also an oddly priced expenditure because the nameplate tuition is not the price paid by most students. It would be a lot better to use the the net price, which is much lower, but is harder to collect.