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The table shown above is the racial and gender (at birth) distribution of higher education degrees granted in the United States. The numbers are the percentage deviation from what one might predict based on the number of students who graduate from high school in four years. I chose the value of those who graduate in four years as the proxy for those likely to move on to higher education.
Community Colleges and Associate degrees granted track most closely to the general US population.
Using degrees granted seems like the most honest metric because a college education started but not finished creates debt but does little to increase earnings potential.
Something interesting happens at the four-year degree level. A gap opens up between Whites and non-Whites. Blacks outpace Hispanics by about 20 percentage points and non-White women outpace none-White men by about 20 percentage points.
At the Masters and Doctoral level, Black women continue to crush Black men but the other groups are arguably within margin-of-noise levels for in-group gender differences.
One anomaly worth noting is that Black women are OVER represented at the Master's level. One possible reason is that Black woman might be operated on the sunk-cost fallacy. They graduated with a worthless four-year degree and need to cover the turd with frosting to become salable in the job market.
One can argue that Hispanics lag because recent immigrants have English-as-second-language barriers. One could also argue that Hispanics keep their eye-on-the-prize. There may be a knee in the cost-investment curve that favors Associate Degrees.
I went further and earned more with an AAS in Automotive Technology than I did when I upgraded to a BS in Organizational Management.
ReplyDeleteA two year degree program in a technical field will give a determined young person the knowledge they need to achieve some degree of success.
Whenever stats and studies come out, the first thing out of my face is, “how good is the data?”… and the sad fact is that whenever environmental, gender or race studies come out…seldom is the information of any real value. Academia is infested with people who can’t properly conduct a statistical study, or can’t properly evaluate valid data.
ReplyDeleteFortunately the critical thinker now has abilities of discernment: in any “study” I want the names of the people that do the work. A quick web search will give you a feel for the person’s competence and objectivity.
Likewise I am sceptical about “think tanks”. Eg. The Institute For The Study Of War was publishing nonsense about the war in the Kraine. Start checking out the people that run it…and you find mostly legacy media hacks and flunkies. More than a few will tout fake credentials and give themselves fake degrees and awards. None of them had the first clue about actual warfare. There were no Westpoint tacticians any serious military contributors.
We live in an age where we can no longer trust anything we see or read. Nor are we legally able to discriminate against stupidity and lunacy. In fact, those qualities are now actively celebrated by all our vital institutions.
For me…the IQ bell curve is what it is. Anecdotal and empirical evidence shows me what happens when women and diversity are educated beyond their intellects. I’ve given up any hope of changing anyone’s mind…and just focus now on limiting my exposure and any vulnerabilities I may have with them.
My last month paycheck was for 11000 dollars… for 3-4 hours/day. 95 bucks every hour…..> https://www.pay.salary49.com
ReplyDeleteAnother reason for the "bump" in Master's degrees for BW is that degrees in social work are overwhelmingly taken by women; however, "social work" employment is almost none existent without a Master's.
ReplyDeleteJust part of the education/"helping" professions Mafia. So EVERYONE who wants a govt sinecure in "social work" must have a Masters. The overpaid/underworked universities are only too happy to credential those minions.....for an extra year of tuition and fees, naturally.
I think several universities "here" are now simply making the BA/Ma social work degree a unified program.
Similarly for education degrees. Having a Masters in education often gets you a pay bump as a public school teacher, and they are ridiculously easy to obtain, often taking classes part time or in the summers. And the classes have very little to do with becoming a better teacher. Often Marxist claptrap and theory.
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