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> Every free college country sends less of their people through college than the US. Really? Says who? Because the OECD certainly doesn’t seem to think there’s
by ElFitz 4y ago
> Every free college country sends less of their people through college than the US.
Really? Says who?
Because the OECD certainly doesn’t seem to think there’s any significant difference.
https://data.oecd.org/eduatt/population-with-tertiary-education.htm https://data.oecd.org/eduatt/population-with-tertiary-educat...
https://data.oecd.org/eduatt/adult-education-level.htm https://data.oecd.org/eduatt/adult-education-level.htm
- SideQuark 4y agoFrom your data, median and mean among OECD with state paid tertiary education is 42% and 43%. US is 51.2%. So the mean and median is around 20% less people with tertiary educations. When you say no significant difference, what is your threshold? 50% less people educated? 20% is a huge difference.
- ElFitz 4y agoYes, but most countries in general have lower tertiary education rates. If I too were to play the data cherry picking game, I could point out that Norway is at 55%. How does that prove anything? It just disproves your unfounded assertion: > Every free college country sends less of their people through college than the US I really fail to see how any of this proves any causality between free college and lower or higher education rates. But it seems you enjoy shifting goalposts, so perhaps we should end it here?