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1) The figure shows that 41% of poor college grads are in the top 40% of the country, and 19% of rich high school drop outs are in the top 40% of the country. That _is_ the poor kids doing better.
2) Dropping out of high school is not 'doing everything wrong', being a college grad is not 'doing everything right'
Annoying rhetoric, made worse by their stats not even really showing what they claim they show.
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I linked to it, came back to it last night to review it, and then got distracted. Sorry!
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There is still *something* in it - but it's more a vauge "if you are rich and dumb you might still do okay -maybe better than if you are poor at all"
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I'm not entirely sure what it was like for people who did computation as an undergrad - amongst my cohort, the main route to a computation MSc was a maths or physics undergrad degree, so the proportions may be totally different anyway from people who selected it as a first subject.
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That entire computing degree was *such* a struggle for me from start to finish - I simply "wasn't good enough". I put that in quotes because I guess I *was* good enough - I got a distinction for the degree, and yet I spent most of the year planning to drop out and expecting to fail or be kicked off the course.
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I've since observed that levels of self-confidence were not typically correlated with grades, but are in my limited experience correlated with who has done very well in life.
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(Plus Florida on medical marijuana.)
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https://news.vice.com/article/legal-pot-in-the-us-is-crippling-mexican-cartels
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