Definite red flag any time there is an attempt to compare completely different people. Of course the down syndrome kids are going to struggle more in school and

Definite red flag any time there is an attempt to compare completely different people. Of course the down syndrome kids are going to struggle more in school and, for the same reason, also struggle more in the workplace. There is nothing to suggest that graduating from college will cure their down syndrome, however. Since college attainment has risen over time, a better look is to see how incomes, adjusted for inflation, have increased over time. The spectrum of people observed over generations, while not totally perfect either, is more comparable. We have always had superstars and down syndrome kids. If college graduates are making more money, more college graduates means we should see a rise in average incomes. It would appear that a 378% increase in educational attainment[1] since the 1960s brought a 17% increase in average incomes[2]. Maybe there is something to it. But... We can also see that in the 90s, incomes actually went down as compared to the 1960s, despite still having a sizeably larger group of college graduates. This suggests that, on average, incomes are as good as stagnant and that college graduates are not earning more than they would have had they not gone to college. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/184260/educational-attainment-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/184260/educational-attai... [2] https://www.statista.com/chart/17679/real-wages-in-the-united-states/ https://www.statista.com/chart/17679/real-wages-in-the-unite...