Honest answer: Because if you give people 15 years to sit at a computer they don't have enough discipline, direction, or guidance to replicate even the incredibly suboptimal learning that happens in most schoolshttps://twitter.com/KapilGuptaMD/status/973763714238296064 …
-
-
Somehow you didn’t learn about “survivor bias”
-
survivorship bias is actually the point i'm making
-
wouldn’t that mean that the folks that would fail standard college would also fail w/ less conventional methods?
-
Depends on why they fail college
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
I know intelligent self-motivated people who still feel they need the bounds and guidance of organized curriculum. I wonder if they genuinely need it or simply use it because they don’t realize there’s an alternative path
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
talented (white, male, connected)* people get hired without a degree
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Agree partially. Although, maybe there's a better and more effective approach to learning that doesn't require discipline?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Let's say IQ *approximately* measures 'ability to learn'. The top 2-5% can teach themselves anything, given access to some info (hence the best programmers are self-taught). They don't need university, but go anyway and get top marks (not because of the teaching).
-
(...Their subsequent life success is misattributed to their education). The people in the 5-20 percentile range acquire adequate skills from their education, then they stop learning once the teaching stops. If those people could be taught how to learn, infinite possibilities.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
you are one of my new favorite people
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.