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Re:Recent Graduates Are Most Likely to Work in Sales, Making... by woopwoop on Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:19PM (#14370219)
Wait, that's an amazing claim. 100 is the median IQ for the entire population. So the claim is that the median college graduate has the same IQ as the median person. How could that possibly be true?
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Re:Recent Graduates Are Most Likely to Work in Sales, Making... by karmicthreat on Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:35PM (#14370355)
In the 70s 10% of people completed a 4 year degree and now it's 35%. So the increased availability of a college education has dragged the meadian of the cohort closer to the average IQ of everyone.
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Re:Recent Graduates Are Most Likely to Work in Sales, Making... by claytonjy on Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:33PM (#14370347)
Could it be that in the past, aptitude was the most clear distinction between college-goers and everyone else, while now anyone that can remotely afford it becomes a college-goer, regardless of aptitude? This explanation would require intelligence to not be too sensitive to income, which might be a false assumption.
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