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> A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ithaca College costs $132,656, on average, and two years later, graduates are earning $19,227. That’s less than peopl
by a9h74j 4y ago
> A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ithaca College costs $132,656, on average, and two years later, graduates are earning $19,227. That’s less than people in New York State earn with only a high school diploma and no college education.
That's just one example, but in general I complement the article on emphasizing approaches using current, not longer-term historic data.
One can overfit to a current bad economy, etc, but it seems insincere to promote college based upon 30-year past data, without acknowledging secular shifts in conditions.
- hinkley 4y agoThe second line tells me there’s something else going on here: > That’s less than people in New York State earn with only a high school diploma and no college education. This tells me that the act of getting a degree in anthropology is correlated not with wanting to be an anthropologist but with either (or maybe both) blindly equating any degree with a better life, or a behavioral pattern of doing anything and everything to avoid getting shit done for as long as humanly possible. That a bullshit degree is not failing at life in its own right, but a sign that you already have been and will continue to do so. We all knew That Guy in college. Maybe it’s just more widespread than that.
- a9h74j 4y agoInteresting twist. > people in New York State earn I assumed this was referring to age cohorts (assuming the statement is true in at least some sense).