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Re:The Stigma of Choosing Trade School over College by msluyter on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:09PM (#19329775)
”A lot of what they do is just admit people who will be high income earners.”

Aka Bryan Caplan’s signalling theory of education:

https://blog.press.princeton.edu/2018/01/23/bryan-caplan-on-...

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Re:The Stigma of Choosing Trade School over College by mont on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:06PM (#19331762)
I don't think that was the point GP was making there.

I believe that they were trying to say that the people who go to college are more likely to be successful than those who don't, regardless of if they actually go to college or not.

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