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Originally Posted by cyco_cc
Picking a very small select few which perform better than the average in the other group is entirely not the point. The question was "What is college good for?" And the answer is, one thing it's good for is that on average, a college educated person will perform better in life than his uneducated counterpart. Picking an exception to the overwhelming majority and saying "So, it's not important to them!" misses the point entirely.
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Do the college educated people perform better because of the college degree or because of their mental makeup? Since they went to college they already have certain traits that would more than likely make them successful with or without a degree (just like the successful uneducated people).
I'm saying that your argument of picking 10,000 from both groups "misses the point" because the 10,000 uneducated group will contain many people that wouldn't be successful even if they received a "free" college degree.