Re: A college degree is no longer a signal of intelligence.

Quote from: larry_vw_1955 on Today at 04:42:23 AM

Quote from: jvanname on June 21, 2024, 05:52:21 PM

Or maybe we can. I don't know. All that I know is that even if universities were technically capable of measuring intelligence, universities are way to incompetent, hateful, and unprofessional to produce degrees that have much value at all.

Regards,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.

hi dr joseph. have you noticed that people don't need to go to college anymore to have a job that pays them well? it seems like the last 20 years there has been a serious change in society where employers no longer care if someone went to college or not. someone coming out of high school in the usa these days can probably go to work right away and make as much as a college graduate if they hustle. this can't be good for universities who want to act like gatekeepers to success in life...what do you think. Shocked

then you have colleges that want to give away free tuition to everyone. how do they make money by doing that? there's got to be something in it for them. and i think it ties back into the fact that some types of people just do not need college. and colleges are trying to grasp at final straws to try and reel them in with free tuition and charge them on the backend for something else like books, housing, advanced degree such as phD which might not be free.

The idea that people need to go to college to be a legitimate quality human is a symptom of mass psychosis. Universities are (or were) only the gatekeepers because people are too psychotic to see how deplorable and discriminatory this is. Universities are not even that good at being gatekeepers since they are out there discrediting themselves by promoting violence against their professors. At the very most, a university degree should only be considered as a measure in a specific field of study. If I want to measure someone's general virtue, I will ask that person to do 50 or so pushups. If that person is able to perform, then that person is virtuous and should be hired. If that person cannot perform, then that person lacks virtue and should not be hired. Another example of virtue is when a person burns his college degree. If a person burns his degree, then that person is virtuous and should be hired, but if not, then that person is garbage.

And even in this case, universities need to compete with other institutions at awarding credentials. And universities need to compete with those who decide not to obtain such credentials.

There seems to be a decline in the popularity of universities in recent years because some people are finally waking up and realizing that they have been scammed. And the decline in the value of a college degree is also correlated with the decline in standards. Today, just about anyone can get a degree because universities do not hold people to high standards, and they flaunt their lack of standards by pandering to those who threaten their professors with violence. This is not a good look for these wretched institutions.

Regards,

-Joseph Van Name Ph.D.