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Re:Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School by rmc on Friday May 04, 2012 @09:30AM (#3928265)
How much of that is due to having more knowledge, and how much is classism? i.e. having upper class parents is probably a very high return aswell.

Also that only really works once. If spent 40 years, doing 10 4 year degrees, by this logic, I'd be a multibillionare right? Something is wrong with this theory.

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Re:Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School by joedev on Friday May 04, 2012 @11:02AM (#3928679)
"having upper class parents is probably a very high return as well"

True, which is why the studies account for factors such as family education and family income in order to attempt to isolate the impact of the one factor being measured: the subject's education level.

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Re:Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School by tyree732 on Friday May 04, 2012 @10:16AM (#3928430)
> Also that only really works once. If spent 40 years, doing 10 4 year degrees, by this logic, I'd be a multibillionare right? Something is wrong with this theory.

I can't imagine that the authors claimed anything more than that.

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Re:Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School by DrJ on Friday May 04, 2012 @10:22AM (#3928457)
it would only work 3 times, Bachelor, Masters, PhD. Also if your income is 0, then however high the multiplier is, the result is still 0.
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