But wouldn’t corporations just use IQ tests anyway? I mean, it would allow them cheaper employees. I don’t think the primary function of college is to signal intelligence. Probably it better signals ambition, stability, and conscientious.
If four-year, $100,000 academic degrees were the most efficient ways to signal intelligence, academics wouldn't fight so hard to deny the reliability & validity of two-hour, $300 IQ tests.https://twitter.com/EPoe187/status/1095618848106123264 …
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*legal prohibitions*
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@bryan_caplan makes the case that a degree *also* signals conformity and conscientiousness in addition to IQ. Not that your point is wrong thoThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Corollary: if IQ testing wasn't illegal for employers, the price-tag of academic degrees would plummet
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A college degree signals more than intelligence. It signals a willingness to jump through hoops for 4 years purely for career advancement. Such people make for agreeable employees eager to work hard to climb the corporate ladder. Employees with large debts are also loyal.
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Intelligence isn't the only thing completing a college degree can signal. Can signal being a conformist, being able to accomplish long-term goals, and other such things which employers value, and which (I assume) IQ doesn't always communicate (though correct me if I'm wrong).
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When I took African American literature we used to switch papers with the person sitting next to us. The black students invariably wrote at a level that should have disqualified them from tertiary education. They didn't. College means what admin wants it to mean.
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Except it is no longer clear that they signal this anymore.https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1080503483672027136 …
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I can think of a lot of ways to signal that that don't cost $100000 and 4 years
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