Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?

Re:Poll: What is your highest educational qualification? by aneesh on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @09:51AM (#595703)

Given the age distribution of HN readers, it's clear many of them are still in school. So their responses to this poll may not be very meaningful, at least not in the same way as the responses of those no longer in school.

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Re:Poll: What is your highest educational qualification? by davidw on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @09:54AM (#595710)

It would be useful to have something like:

* Still in HS

* Still in College

* Still in PhD program

to help weed those out.

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Re:Poll: What is your highest educational qualification? by josefresco on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @10:12AM (#595754)

The question is pretty clear, and the 'high school' result should show those that are currently IN college/university.

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Re:Poll: What is your highest educational qualification? by davidw on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @10:21AM (#595775)

The point is that it doesn't differentiate between people who simply never finished/went to college, like me, from people who are still in college, which is an interesting data point.

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Re:Poll: What is your highest educational qualification? by jlees on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @01:20PM (#596217)

Or between people who dropped out of PhD programs and those who never started, which is also an interesting data point given the few high-profile PhD dropout startup founders there are out there.

(Dropping out of PhD = walking away with a Masters in some places, but not all; I had my Master's degrees before I started the PhD.)

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Re:Poll: What is your highest educational qualification? by davidw on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @11:05AM (#595868)

> completed (i.e., met all requirements and passed)

That sounds 'formal' to me, in the sense of either you have a degree or you don't. I took Italian in college, and having lived here a number of years, probably speak it well enough to teach it, know the grammar well, etc... but I don't have a degree in it.

Whatever though... these things are kind of pointless. I think it's best to do what you want in life and get on with it and not worry too much about what other people do.

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Re:Poll: What is your highest educational qualification? by wheels on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @12:00PM (#595998)

Claiming that someone who's been in college for several years' highest level of education is "high school" presents a very odd definition of the word "education". Perhaps you meant degree?

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