Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)

Re:Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018) by Joof on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:40PM (#22989129)

You just suggested that a lot of ivy-league schools are second tier. I'm not sure you're very representative of the vast majority of people.

In Texas, there's stuff like Stanford and Cornell, which is ivy league -- 1-2 kids might do that. Then we have 2 top tier state schools, then it's the other stuff.

Everyone else I work with got some degree from an Ivy League. Half have PhDs. It carries some weight and I think we get better VC funding and it's easier to get customers, but I don't think the degrees do much beyond that.

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Re:Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018) by umanwizard on Sunday April 26, 2020 @04:31PM (#22989990)

When I read these threads I feel like I'm reading an ethnography of life on another planet.

I did an IB magnet program in high school, graduating ~2008, and I don't know anyone from even that self-selected sample of people who went to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, etc. One girl went to MIT.

The overwhelming majority of these people, who again, were a much brighter sample than the average teenager, ended up at either the U. of A. or ASU (A=Arizona).

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Re:Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018) by buzzkillington on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:54PM (#22989249)

The point of the degree is to have it and then pretend it doesn't matter.

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