{"id":561,"date":"2009-03-03T00:54:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T05:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2009-03-03T00:54:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T05:54:54","slug":"cato-unbound-blog-archive-down-with-the-four-year-college-degree-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/03\/cato-unbound-blog-archive-down-with-the-four-year-college-degree-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cato Unbound \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Down with the Four-Year College Degree!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m digging through unpublished\/drafts in the blog and I found this. Its march already and students are starting to deal with finals and afterwards graduations, and finally the drudgery of work for most other people!\u00a0 Thought provoking!<\/p>\n

Finally, consider the hundreds of thousands of students who go to college<\/a> just because they have had it pounded into their heads since childhood that the good jobs require a BA<\/a> The wage premium that shows up in regression equations may or may not apply to them. In Real Education, I offer an extended example involving a hypothetical young man graduating from high school<\/a> who is at the 70th percentile<\/a> in intellectual ability\u2013smart enough to get a BA in today\u2019s world\u2013but just average in intrapersonal<\/a> and interpersonal ability. He is at the 95th percentile in the visual-spatial and small motor skills<\/a> useful in becoming a top electrician<\/a>. He is trying to decide whether to go to college, major in business, and try to become a business executive<\/a>, or instead become an electrician.
\nCato Unbound \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Down with the Four-Year College Degree!<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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