March 8, 2011

Paul Krugman also sees that college ain’t the answer any more. The bubble is bursting. Are you ready, or are you fully invested?

Does my title capture a curious correlation or a cause and effect relationship? I ask because quantitative analysis can only direct us to correlations, as serious statisticians frequently remind us. The context of education is too full of variables for us to confidently ascribe causes (and therefore responsibility) to the decline in virtually everything of