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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to preempt the grammar police, it is "smarter than I".

I don't think one person is smarter than another person because of a graduate degree.  I do tend to think that the group of people who get graduate degrees are, on average, smarter than the group who doesn't.  To be perfectly honest, however, [b]I think those that are doing well financially without the graduate degree are the smartest of us all![/b][/quote]

100% agree with this!!!

To OP, what an oddly defensive post. Don't worry about other people. Worry about yourself. "Slamming" people with graduate degrees for "not learning particularly well" puts you in the same category you're complaining about. [/quote]

Not slamming ALL people.  Just saying that I have met many with graduate degrees that don't learn quickly.  Having a graduate degree is not the be all and end all.  All it means is that you studied for a couple of years.  It might mean that you are extremely accomplished, but it may not.  And you could just as easily be exceptional without a grad degree.  Hell, the smartest, most accomplished two people I know, didn't even go to college and they'd run rings around many of those who did.

Also don't have an inferiority complex at all.  Quite the opposite, on this topic, at least.  (I already responded above but didn't make it clear it was me, the OP).  I find it astounding that anyone would imply that a grad degree in and of itself made them superior, but I regularly see it implied here (on this site) at least.  Much less rarely in real life, but I figured people's real views come out in an anonymous forum!

Also, to clarify again, I'm talking generally, not specifically about myself (though I realize my OP didn't make that clear as I used myself as the example) about people who believe that they are superior because of their grad degree to those who don't have one (not me specifically).[/quote]

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