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A comment on Relationship between Education and Mental Health: New Evidence from Twin Study.

Re:Relationship between Education and Mental Health: New Evi... by jostmey on Monday May 23, 2016 @09:30AM (#11753691)
The study argues that the positive relationship between mental health and higher levels of education is due to confounding factors. The take home message seems to be that higher levels education is not important to mental health.

I think the larger narrative here is that higher education is not as important to success as previously believed. Was someone successful because they went to college, or were they already on a trajectory for success, and they just happened to attend college because they were offered a free ride?

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Re:Relationship between Education and Mental Health: New Evi... by openasocket on Monday May 23, 2016 @12:04PM (#11754719)
I think that depends a lot of your definition of success. Are we defining success in terms of general health and wellbeing? In terms of life satisfaction? In terms of wealth?
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Re:Relationship between Education and Mental Health: New Evi... by ausjke on Monday May 23, 2016 @10:05AM (#11753902)
It's all statistics, I would think the highly educated has a higher probability to be more successful then the less educated when a large sample pool is used?
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Re:Relationship between Education and Mental Health: New Evi... by GalacticDomin8r on Monday May 23, 2016 @02:12PM (#11755673)
It's turtles all the way down.
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