American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs

Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by pmiller2 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @09:44PM (#19508334)

Didn’t Google find no useful correlation between either GPA or school attended and job performance? I’m not sure if they categorized people by “easy” or “hard” degrees.

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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by ylmm on Thursday March 28, 2019 @11:55AM (#19513418)

What defines a "useful" correlation?

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Re:American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs by pmiller2 on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:03PM (#19513528)

Strong enough to bother trying to figure out if there’s a causal relationship.

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