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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by forkandwait on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:27PM (#14484298)
Out of the 100 or so people I know my experience is very typical.
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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by cbhl on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:36PM (#14484330)
But the 100 people you would know would be biased towards Math grads, and less towards English or Environment majors, right? Survivorship bias means you would be less likely to be in touch with collage drop-outs.
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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by Rapzid on Monday June 05, 2017 @01:16AM (#14485400)
Which, is something you'd expect a college graduate to realize...
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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by mseebach on Monday June 05, 2017 @07:23AM (#14486770)
The problem is, they need to realise it ~6 years before they're a college graduate.
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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by bdcravens on Sunday June 04, 2017 @07:49PM (#14484380)
> a professor arranged my first professional job

Not typical.

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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by eon1 on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:09PM (#14484449)
Yeah, like.. scorchingly atypical. How many of these jobs are there that all 100 of your peers had a similar experience?
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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by HarryHirsch on Sunday June 04, 2017 @09:56PM (#14484839)
What do you think the "alumni lists" on researchers' webpages are good for? On the other hand, if a researcher has no alumni list on their page and isn't just starting out, that's an obvious sign for all that can read.
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Re:On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs ... by csallen on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:12AM (#14485571)
That's never been a reliable way to determine what's true for millions of other people, and it never will be.
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