Reply #36: I remember the Bell Curve

[alarimer]

thoroughly discredited by the fact that they deliberately elimated the data that did not fit their preconceived notions. Complete scientific fraud.

In any case, whether a degree helps you get a job or job depends on the field and the economics at the time you graduate. I also believe in education for education's sake. Everyone benefits from that in one way or another.

Besides, where you once might have been able to pick up a hammer and find decent paying work, you no longer can do that.