Once there’s no longer consensus that college degrees are a good #LikelihoodEstimator for job role fitness — one where major & college brand allow estimated fitness to be ranked — that’s the end 4 college! (I almost wanna say “good riddance” there are so many idiots w/ degrees)
Event study of how accommodations affect your GPA: they help A LOT. Students with accommodations can get extra time on tests, and sometimes use computers when other students can't. 7/
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Some ppl suggested I sign up for extra time on tests. It would’ve helped, but I could’ve succeeded otherwise. I didn’t have enough of a social network to study socially. I cannot adequately emphasize how important it is for society to overcome technology’s anti-social effects
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I also had issues with the textbooks which were garbage. Full of BS designed to “make it easy” but only increased page count by 5x. Everything is digital now (I need to separate from tech to focus. I also need printable homework). There was only a loose leaf edition of physics
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WTF?! I occasionally open 20 year old textbooks! Loose leaf edition?! …anyway. Tech & cultural influences on social behavior will eventually cascade. Social dynamics have exponential impact: slow to grow, multiply fast, overwhelming when they “add” (they multiply in magnitude)
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80% of the time, students who didn’t adapt behavior seek accommodation for tests. Individually, this seems additive, but at scale the dynamic MULTIPLIES: (1) fewer students who can guide other students in behavior adjustment or time management (2) fewer adhoc study groups
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(3) eventually, networking to study becomes frustrating; there’s no normal examples to model/emulate It’s the “pay it forward” effect in reverse Universities either must lower standards (curriculum or test-taking) … or they fail their customers! That’s bad for business.
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Finally, after students make it to workforce (or don’t), managers who hired them adjust their expectations for feature that contributed most to hiring success/failure (back propagation) When “college degree” feature(s) no longer signify significant value add,the system collapses
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There’s also increasing lag time b/w graduation & first sustained early employment Skill rot. Poverty (stagnation in personal development). Frustration, despair, resentment These all tend 2 make younger hires, on average, more likely to be bad hires SOCIAL DYNAMICS *MULTIPLY*
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I can’t emphasize that enough Society, culture & people do not change overnight, nor are there overt mechanisms for consensus formation Looking back, you’ll think it changed suddenly. Nope. This took decades. Society needs to prepare people TO prepare people 4 high expectations
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And then you need to equip people with tools, options, etc to develop themselves. So much of success has been on a road paved for people that we can’t even recognize anymore it’s normal for Americans to move forward on meritocratic autopilot. But that road is broken & grown over
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Fixing this requires becoming hyper-conscious of each others’ needs (in depth and in real time) and what leads towards success. It requires the “pay it forward” effect… but in the forward direction. It requires leveraging the social network for multiplicative effects.
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