Just How Hard is University to Overcome
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This can't always be true, and I think that money proxies power poorly between career categories. But within a single one, I think that it is pretty useful. For example, a high earning IT pro has more power to dictate what matters to him more than a low earning one. But a high earning IT pro comparing to a comparably paid doctor or pharmacist would not be able to compare.
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@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
@storageninja said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
You can find proxies for success that have statistic significance. Economic background, SAT scores, etc. Economists have been studying "why are rich people rich, and poor people poor" for a REALLY long damn time.
Find any study for this, though. It's all about motivation and self education. I've never seen anyone do a study that in any way would be useful to compare against college. My guess is that the researchers are all from colleges and know that they'd be defunded if they produced that data.
I've read a number of studies where they've actually been finding that raw IQ matters more to the question of why the rich people are rich (who didn't inherit it) and the poor are poor more than anything. The problem is of course, there's really not much that can be done if you don't have a high IQ, because there's about nothing anyone can do to improve their IQ. If, as they say, IQ is really just how quickly and efficiently people can process and utilize data, the theory that IQ directly effects probability for success makes a fair bit of sense. They haven't said anything ultra-conclusive in their studies aside from the fact that they found pretty universal links between higher IQ and greater success in general.
It would naturally make sense too that those with higher innate intelligence are more likely to be able to self-teach more content more quickly than those with less, but higher IQ would then also by the same theory penalize those people even more in the University setting. Interestingly enough though, the studies were all being done by big colleges and universities world-wide as a collaborative effort.
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The link that @StorageNinja posted is interesting.
Though @scottalanmiller they list the national salary average as $33,500.
So is your number of $38K for HS higher because in theory HS might garner more salary?
Those are also medians, BTW.
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@tirendir said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
I've read a number of studies where they've actually been finding that raw IQ matters more to the question of why the rich people are rich (who didn't inherit it) and the poor are poor more than anything. The problem is of course, there's really not much that can be done if you don't have a high IQ, because there's about nothing anyone can do to improve their IQ.
You can, actually, but it is hard and you can only move the needle a little. But you can do something about it. When I was at the hedge fund, they had a lot of research on this because they were very interested in the best of the best and not just how to find them, but how to nurture them.
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Did someone hijack your account?
Why do you keep saying college.
It's throwing me off, looks suspicious.
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@tirendir said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
It would naturally make sense too that those with higher innate intelligence are more likely to be able to self-teach more content more quickly than those with less, but higher IQ would then also by the same theory penalize those people even more in the University setting.
That's a great point, and I agree. The more capable you are, the more university penalizes you. The more your time is wasted, the more classes are boring, the less the professor has benefits for you, the more the classroom discussions are wasted, etc. University benefits are greatest to those that struggle the most. One of the reasons that I feel society promotes university is that it is a "leveler" making more people fit in the bell curve by making the bottom look not so bad and the top look not so good.
Large industry wants to hire the middle, the college system makes a bigger middle. It providers more worker bees at lower cost for the system.
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@brrabill said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
So is your number of $38K for HS higher because in theory HS might garner more salary?
My number is from the Department of Labor. I believe only HS grads are included, not drop outs, so that might be the factor.
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Here is an example of where the stats are really hard to make useful...
Take high school level home schoolers. There are two primary groups that do this, one is the group that doesn't trust education and wants their kids to not be exposed to the school system. Mostly this is the religious group and mostly they do it to shield kids from information.
The other, also distrusting the education system, feel that the education system is too "teach to the middle" or doesn't specialize enough or is just too "easy" and slow so teach their kids at home so that they can move faster, focus on topics of relevance, learn more, etc.
Statistically, there is no reasonable means of determining which group is which as they are just "homeschoolers". But it's clear to see that one group is likely to vastly outperform the market and the other is likely to vastly under-perform. But we have no means of proving who came from which group.
Same with college skippers or even high school drop outs. The top performers, those flying in their private jets and making ten figure salaries, are lost in a sea of people who just couldn't handle going to PE class or whatever. Those that struggle with the material and those bored with how uninformed their teachers are get statistically put together.
But in looking at your career and the advantage of education for a career, we know only the high performing group is the one we are interested in the stats on. But have no reasonable means to acquire those stats.
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@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
Does college have value? yes and know.
There's the T-shirt people!
Not what SAM intended I'm sure, but... -
@worden2 said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
Does college have value? yes and know.
There's the T-shirt people!
Not what SAM intended I'm sure, but...LOL
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Good time for this...
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So the other two-thirds did?
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That tells me you're more likely to be a billionaire if you graduated college.
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@tim_g I don't think one or the other is a good predictor of an outcome. It just shows there isn't a strong correlation.
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@mike-davis said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
@tim_g I don't think one or the other is a good predictor of an outcome. It just shows there isn't a strong correlation.
Well it says that more than half (60%) of the world's billionaires did graduate college.
I do realize that statistic by itself is inconclusive, but it still shows that your more likely to be a billionaire if you graduate college.
It is a meme... so it may not even be true. I never verified it.
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@tim_g said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
@mike-davis said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
@tim_g I don't think one or the other is a good predictor of an outcome. It just shows there isn't a strong correlation.
Well it says that more than half (60%) of the world's billionaires did graduate college.
I do realize that statistic by itself is inconclusive, but it still shows that your more likely to be a billionaire if you graduate college.
It is a meme... so it may not even be true. I never verified it.
Or if you are a billionaire, you more than likely have the privilege to go to college as it is already paid for by your family.
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@irj said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
@tim_g said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
@mike-davis said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
@tim_g I don't think one or the other is a good predictor of an outcome. It just shows there isn't a strong correlation.
Well it says that more than half (60%) of the world's billionaires did graduate college.
I do realize that statistic by itself is inconclusive, but it still shows that your more likely to be a billionaire if you graduate college.
It is a meme... so it may not even be true. I never verified it.
Or if you are a billionaire, you more than likely have the privilege to go to college as it is already paid for by your family.
Anyone can go to college. The poorer you are the more likely it is to be free... where you even get money for gas and such.
The privilege part is whether or not you have the means to go to college... such as a car, time, ability to put kids in child care so you can go, live in a place that even has college access, etc...
Your social life matters too... if you are surrounded by and are friends with people who only care about gangs and drugs and not about success, you probably won't go to college either. It has a lot to do with up-bringing.
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@tim_g said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
@irj said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
@tim_g said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
@mike-davis said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:
@tim_g I don't think one or the other is a good predictor of an outcome. It just shows there isn't a strong correlation.
Well it says that more than half (60%) of the world's billionaires did graduate college.
I do realize that statistic by itself is inconclusive, but it still shows that your more likely to be a billionaire if you graduate college.
It is a meme... so it may not even be true. I never verified it.
Or if you are a billionaire, you more than likely have the privilege to go to college as it is already paid for by your family.
Anyone can go to college. The poorer you are the more likely it is to be free... where you even get money for gas and such.
The privilege part is whether or not you have the means to go to college... such as a car, time, ability to put kids in child care so you can go, live in a place that even has college access, etc...
Your social life matters too... if you are surrounded by and are friends with people who only care about gangs and drugs and not about success, you probably won't go to college either. It has a lot to do with up-bringing.
The real question that has to be asked, would the Billionaires who went to college, be a billionaire if they didn't go to college. That then gets to the crux of the issue.
