I should have been more clear about what I was responding to - this commend by rdr: "does that imply that certain people are held to a higher standard due to w

I should have been more clear about what I was responding to - this commend by rdr: "does that imply that certain people are held to a higher standard due to where they went to college? that seems unfair both to those people (who have unreasonably elevated expectations) and to everyone else (who have lowered expectations since they don't have a name-brand diploma)." I agreed with both your original comment and the follow-up. The question of fairness got me thinking, though, and I wanted to present one way of thinking about it.