Thursday, May 24, 2012
The Education Level of EPJ Readers
According to the internet tracking site Quantcast, EPJ readers are highly educated relative to the overall internet population. 23% of EPJ readers have attended graduate school. The index number on the right side of the chart compares the relative education of the internet population versus that of EPJ readers.
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How does a firm know that about people?
ReplyDeleteeveryone i've ever worked with who went to grad school was a completely worthless employee.
ReplyDeleteThis.
DeleteSome of the smartest and best working people I know dropped out of school.
Considering I only have a diploma and no college degree, I'm a rarity on EPJ.
ReplyDeleteI barely passed high school. Sorry for bringing your average down. ;)
ReplyDeleteso how would quantcast go about knowing what my education level is??
ReplyDeleteThis trend is consistent with economics blogs in general.
ReplyDeleteLet's all give ourselves a pat on the back.
ReplyDeleteEven though I"m among those at EPJ with a graduate degree, I think it's important we not forget what our good friend Samuel Clemens had to say.
ReplyDelete"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education".
JG
I have a BS in Economics that I had to overcome in order to understand Austrian Economics.
ReplyDeleteThat makes two of us!
DeleteThree.
DeleteHigh School dropout. (Well, "kicked out" actually).
ReplyDeleteSorry.
Id argue that the less indoctrinated you are by State education, the more easily you can accept the Austrian belief system. I only went to high school, graduated with a C+ average.
ReplyDeleteIm the only one in my family that didnt go to college. interestingly enough, I am the only one in my family who is self employed and am far more successful than my 3 other siblings. I own 3 businesses with 11 employees. And Im the only libertarian in my family.
Mark,
DeleteIf I were a "Cyber-Bully" I'd say something about learning about apostrophes in college, but I'm not that way.
Just teasin'.
Anyhow, I never made it as far as you did (see above)
Sorry again.
I'm not sure the word "education" is being used properly here. Seems to me that having a college degree is no indication of how well you are educated.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there are those of us who dropped out of the government's indoctrination program as soon as we turned 16 and educated ourselves with a library card and, later, an Internet connection. :)
ReplyDeleteI'd still like to know the answer to the frequently asked question. How the faq do they know our education level?
ReplyDeleteDude, just google "quantcast methodology".
DeleteI'm one of those who wasted tens of thousands of dollars and several productive years of my life acquiring crushing debt and a useless degree. Hooray!
ReplyDeleteLooks like this post brought out the 26% of us who didn't go to college.
ReplyDeleteHow many graduate degrees are for useless nonsense like education, social work, or the ever-popular MBA? I wouldn't get excited by that...
ReplyDeleteI got halfway through my Masters degree and decided, "The hell with this. Enough is enough". It was a useless degree (as most are), so dropping it didn't hurt me in any way. I work with a lot of people with Masters degrees and as others have alluded to, especially Mr. Clemens, schooling is not the same thing as education.
ReplyDeleteMaster's degrees are pretty worthless. PhD isn't much better. The education model is built almost entirely around memory exercises. If you can retain a bunch of factoids in your head for more than 24 hrs, you can cruise to a PhD...
ReplyDeleteWhat's missing from public ed is any emphasis whatsoever on critical thinking, logic, common sense (which is far from common), creative reasoning. It really should be no surprise that most PhD's can hardly tie their own shoes since they are basically experts at regurgitation and not much else... and find a ready home on the taxpayer's dime.
Throughout my career in engineering, every new grad had to be first unschooled and then reschooled before they were worth a damn. Public ed is 12-16 years of time down the drain for most people and the gov and education industrial complex are just A-OK with that.