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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think I'm smarter than you because of my graduate degree.  I think the odds are good that I'm smarter than you because I've always been smarter than most of my peers.

I'm not usually such a dick about it, but you asked, so there it is.  [/quote]

Hahaha, I was thinking this too. I'm not smarter than you because I have a graduate degree. I have the degree because I'm smarter than you. [/quote]

And I don't have the degree because in fact I'm smarter than YOU and I recognized that it has no actual utility in real life beyond the process/experience of learning.[/quote]

So this is where you lost me.  Someone who wants to be a doctor goes to school to learn how to be a doctor. Her degree absolutely has actual utility in real life.  Same for any profession where having advanced knowledge of a field is key to success.

People who have gone through a rigorous graduate program have done a lot more than simply getting through "the process/experience of learning."

If I'm going to hire someone for a position that requires a deep knowledge of something, you bet I'll look more favorably at the application of someone who has been tested in that field and has a graduate degree to prove it than someone who spent fewer years studying it.

You are mixing up apples and oranges anyway - someone is not a better person for having gone to graduate school. But they're probably a better psychologist, or chemist, or professor.

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