Top 10 Best (and Worst) Educated States and How They Voted

[flips333]

Can someone also explain to me how having a college degree means you're smarter than someone else?

It took me 5 years to get a degree and I hated every second of school but I went through it because there's this ridiculous notion that you're not smart if you don't have a bachelor's degree. Unless you've been through 4 years of some stupid ******** busy work, where you memorized answers and slapped them on a test sheet, then somehow your opinion isn't as valid as another's?

Some of the stupidest people I know have college degrees... a lot of them are jersey shore girls who got through college because it's a total joke and now i'm supposed to respect their retarded opinions over someone who is brilliant but couldn't afford to drop 100k on a lousy piece of paper?

I could just as easily say the states with the best "education" went Obama because the educational system is run by a bunch of people who have never worked in the private sector, got teaching degrees through largely liberal schools, and don't know the first thing about conservatism or free markets.

This entire thing is totally relative and absolutely childish.

On average people who have a college education are smarter then people who have just a high school diploma. People who have a high school diploma on average are going to be smarter than people who dropped out. People who get advanced degrees are on average smarter than those who don't. I'm sorry but just cause you know some dumb people with college educations doesn't mean education ceases to have value.

Less education is not a cause of poor intelligence. Anyone who tells you so doesn't understand the measurement of intelligence. Measuring intelligence is by no means a perfect science. But intelligence exists and it is highly correlated with education.

By the way is someone who is brilliant code for believes what I do?

[spliff(TONE)]

I don't think there's necessarily much of a correlation between higher education and general intelligence. Some correlation probably, but not a massive amount by any means.

[flips333]

I don't think there's necessarily much of a correlation between higher education and general intelligence. Some correlation probably, but not a massive amount by any means.

no there is. around .5 Which is huge for psychology.

[whitesoxfan83]

On average people who have a college education are smarter then people who have just a high school diploma. People who have a high school diploma on average are going to be smarter than people who dropped out. People who get advanced degrees are on average smarter than those who don't. I'm sorry but just cause you know some dumb people with college educations doesn't mean education ceases to have value.

Less education is not a cause of poor intelligence. Anyone who tells you so doesn't understand the measurement of intelligence. Measuring intelligence is by no means a perfect science. But intelligence exists and it is highly correlated with education.

By the way is someone who is brilliant code for believes what I do?

No, i've got a friend who is a sort of savant when it comes to mathematics but can't find a job because he doesn't have a degree. It's not his fault he didn't have the money.

Meanwhile I have jersey shore friends who have degrees and are dumber than a pile of bricks.

The entire system of college disgusts me in this regard... I understand the importance but I do not understand how employers won't even TALK to non-college grads when they may be better future employees and can be paid less.

[homestarunner93]

The chart is clearly foolish statistical manipulation, but I'll draw a positive from the fact that South Carolina is not in the bottom 10.

[flips333]

No, i've got a friend who is a sort of savant when it comes to mathematics but can't find a job because he doesn't have a degree. It's not his fault he didn't have the money.

Meanwhile I have jersey shore friends who have degrees and are dumber than a pile of bricks.

The entire system of college disgusts me in this regard... I understand the importance but I do not understand how employers won't even TALK to non-college grads when they may be better future employees and can be paid less.

Because you have to have some standards... If you refuse to do what it takes to get the job, an employer is left to think that you will refuse to do what it takes to do the job. That is how I think of it when I get under qualified resumes.

[gcoll]

Yup.

Flips directly contradicted the implication of your first post.

You can't just run away from that and pretend it never happened.

[flips333]

Flips directly contradicted the implication of your first post.

You can't just run away from that and pretend it never happened.

It's just an Internet forum. Take the silence as assent.