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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is my favorite tweet on this topic:

We’ve long had questions about whether the value of an elite degree is mainly signaling or mainly acquired human capital.

It’s interesting to see 
@Harvard
 faculty coming out so strongly in favor of it being mainly signaling.

https://twitter.com/C_Garthwaite/status/1743679744275562632[/quote]

You don't comprehend there are wide variances of standards, rigor and merit between degree programs at the same university? You right wingers routinely make fun of humanities degrees for being so easy they're worthless, while a STEM bachelor's at the same university are much more intense, of course. Or a public policy master's from Kennedy School at Harvard is obviously far easier to get into and far easier to finish than a four-year MD program at Harvard Medical School. Rufo sought a shortcut degree from the easiest department at Harvard, the open enrollment extension school. $40,000 to buy a "Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies" online degree. Then he purposely misinterpreted the degree to confer the prestige, status, and accomplishment the much more selective and rigorous programs project. [b]It's akin to stolen valor.[/b] Guy is a clown.[/quote]

#ftw[/quote]

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