agreed. as with most statistical analyses, the conclusions drawn can differ in some interesting ways, which is what should lead to further inquiries for researc

agreed. as with most statistical analyses, the conclusions drawn can differ in some interesting ways, which is what should lead to further inquiries for research and hypotheses. where one set of eyes sees higher education as unnecessary due to “low ROI”, another set of eyes may wonder if/how/why the cost of higher education has outpaced salaries of those whom it’s supposed to have served. my sense (and its all intuition and not information based) is that we’ve had about 2 decades of rapidly increasing educational costs while support funding (grants, scholarships, state subsidization) has remained stagnant (or decreased), and incomes of graduates have not increased at the same rate relative to the cost of acquiring that degree. these trendlines would be pretty informative if someone created them. then we could ask why …