Are College Students Really This Dumb?

[EdwinAMartin]

Everyone knows someone who went to college and couldn’t get a job
They also know someone with a HS degree that is very successful.

But the facts are that as a whole, college graduates do better than HS graduates
HS graduates do better than HS dropouts

Mainly due to crappy service industry economy and Corps requiring college degree for even the lowest level jobs and phone jobs. Not a big mystery there. The fact is minimum wage adjusted for real inflation would be close to $60K a year, but the media has bullshitted people into believing they're 'middle class n stuff' because the Federal minimum wage is still around $7.5 an hour. They're idiots. The university dept. at a school where I taught a couple of classes for a while ran and ad requiring at least a bachelor's in English for a part time receptionists job.

So yeah, it easy to babble about 'higher pay n stuff' when the labor market is crap and the high productivity jobs get off-shored to slave labor countries. An engineer with 5 years experience at a tech company I was contracting at couldn't qualify for a loan on a trailer house in Silly Con Valley. So he made twice as much as a janitor; whoopy do, lot of good it did him.

 

[rightwinger]

Mainly due to crappy service industry economy and Corps requiring college degree for even the lowest level jobs and phone jobs. Not a big mystery there.

College grads have always done better than HS grads

 

[mudwhistle]

He just offended 20% of the population

“Learning disabilities, including dyslexia, affect how the brain processes information. They do not reflect a person’s intelligence, judgment, or ability to lead,” the organization said in a statement released Monday. “Every day, people with learning disabilities serve their communities as teachers, entrepreneurs, scientists, members of the military, and public servants.”
The statement also noted that several previous presidents have had documented or suspected learning disabilities, including Woodrow Wilson.
According to the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, dyslexia has “no connection to [people’s] overall intelligence.” The condition is also common, affecting around 20% of the population.

Some people are professionals at being offended. World class.

He was talking about Newscum.

Not a bunch of learning impaired snowflakes.

 

[Concerned American]

Is this a good example of the quality of education at our colleges and universities?

Here's a current college student saying she wants to move to Iran. I bet she said the same thing about Ukraine when she was in H.S.

Forget about ICE. The focus now is on defending our worst enemy in the Middle-East, Iran.

This is so ridiculous:

Read an article this am that said 50 EU bigwigs were asked to point to Iran on the map and NONE of them could do it. The article mentioned that they pointed to Bulgaria, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. SMH. The world is getting dumber by the day.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

I bet Newsom has read more books than Trump

Yes, no doubt he loafs around a lot and doesn't do much. He did say he was just as stupid as Supabadbrutha and his sock IM2, so he's read a lot of comic books.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Is Trump so stupid that he keeps saying his father was born in Germany when he was born in NY? 25th amendment time?

Then JD Vance

 

[JLW]

Some people are professionals at being offended. World class.

He was talking about Newscum.

Not a bunch of learning impaired snowflakes.

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"Newscum??"

The OP accusing anyone of being"dumb" is pure projection.

 

[Concerned American]

"Newscum??"

The OP accusing anyone of being"dumb" is pure projection.

Yeah Newscum--isn't he the protege' of Nazi Piglosi?

 

[sealybobo]

College grads have always done better than HS grads

One time during the Bush Great Recession I interviewed with Waste Management. I would be dealing with unhappy customers. You had to be able to type a certain number of words a minute. With my sales and customer service experience and college degree, no way they aren't going to offer me a job right? WRONG.

Was the young guy who interviewed me intimidated by me? With a degree I would have moved up to management. All the people without degrees will never move up to management. I think I even told him I'd be interested in his job. I thought that was a good answer. But apparently I was over qualified for the job. Or maybe he didn't think I'd stay very long because I was too good. Who knows. Point is sometimes you will take a job that doesn't require a college degree within an organization but to move up in that company, you need a college degree.

I'm sure there are a lot of people in HR who don't have degrees. But no one moves up the ladder without one.

Yes, you can absolutely work in Human Resources (HR) without a degree. Many entry-level roles—such as HR Assistant, Coordinator, or Recruiting Coordinator—value skills like communication, organization, and customer service over formal education. You can enter the field by leveraging transferable skills, earning certifications (e.g., aPHR), and gaining hands-on experience.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

It's stupid to say a 4 year degree isn't worth it just because it wasn't worth it to you. Or you didn't do with it what you could. Others have done much more with much less. Sometimes it's your foot in the door. Sometimes it's what separates you from the goobers. So you got a worthless degree or a good degree and didn't do shit with it. Which is it? If you got a good degree perhaps because of what you learned you are saving enough for retirement. If it's a shitty degree, sometimes it's what you make of it. Like an art degree. I'm sure a lot of artist make a lot of money on the internet.

Look how much a paint brush can cost. $450. Maybe they learned that in art school.

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Or work at Windsor and Newton in London

I got a Communications Major with a Minor in Marketing. I'll be a millionaire before I'm 60. Or 62. They say us college grads make $1 million more over 30 years. It's true. About $33K a year more than our uneducated neighbors like you.

Oh yea. One more thing. Only 2% of people who are murdered are educated. Very low chance of getting murdered if you have a college degree. Look it up.

We know you're pretty stupid if you think $150K a year in California is better off than $80K a year in most parts of Texas. You have no real idea what you're talking about.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

College grads have always done better than HS grads

And the reasons why aren't what you hope people think they are. Many of them already have well off parents to start with.

 

[rightwinger]

And the reasons why aren't what you hope people think they are. Many of them already have well off parents to start with.

Could be
Could be they have more ambition

 

[EdwinAMartin]

Could be
Could be they have more ambition

\More like they're starting out on third base.

 

[mudwhistle]

"Newscum??"

The OP accusing anyone of being"dumb" is pure projection.

Newscum is a despicable dirtbag who is constantly ripping off Californians.

 

[rightwinger]

\More like they're starting out on third base.

Graduating college puts you on third base

 

[Woodznutz]

Like knowledge, a little GOOGLE is a dangerous thing.
GIGO.

You just gotta know how to separate the wheat from the chaff.

 

[Woodznutz]

If you can't be happy when you are 19 or 20, in college, your mind is not right. I have nothing but happy memories from my college years.

Students here walk around like they're going to a funeral...their own.

 

[Woodznutz]

Stop being such a DICK

Students in California did not graduate with massive debt in the 60s

Easy student loans. Great plan.

 

[mudwhistle]

He just offended 20% of the population

“Learning disabilities, including dyslexia, affect how the brain processes information. They do not reflect a person’s intelligence, judgment, or ability to lead,” the organization said in a statement released Monday. “Every day, people with learning disabilities serve their communities as teachers, entrepreneurs, scientists, members of the military, and public servants.”
The statement also noted that several previous presidents have had documented or suspected learning disabilities, including Woodrow Wilson.
According to the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, dyslexia has “no connection to [people’s] overall intelligence.” The condition is also common, affecting around 20% of the population.