MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'college degree'. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:25:52 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3665941&cid=t_275516_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fdo-you-live-in-a-smart-city%2F Where you live is a matter of taste (or often, coincidence), but it’s also an indicator of things like personality, lifestyle preferences, professional direction, and even your health and fitness. But what about how smart you are? According to an article in GOOD Magazine, “Where the smart people at?“, the traditional way of measuring intelligence within a given city is measuring the proportion or raw number of college degree-holders in a city, but economist Rob Pitingolo things that’s insufficient, and has devised his own way of measuring a city’s smarts. Pitingolo says that having a bunch of intelligent people in one general area is meaningless unless they’re interacting and exchanging ideas. Y’know, doin’ smart stuff. So instead he measured... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3665941 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:30:54 +0100 3665941 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3235827&cid=t_275516_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FVu2UQS8yqkc%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonThe WSJ reports today on the average lifetime earnings advantage conferred by a college degree. This statistic is probably worse than useless. “College” isn’t a single thing, and its benefits will not likely be enjoyed equally by every single student, even those pursuing precisely the same degrees. For a college earnings premium figure to be of any value to policymakers or prospective college students, it would be necessary to break it down by field and by student characteristics. What’s the premium difference, for instance, between workers who majored in engineering, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, economics, etc., compared to those who majored in communications, art history, social work, multicultural studies, etc.? A similar brea... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3235827 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:48:36 +0100 3235827 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2648970&cid=t_275516_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fd0G9SHVipA8%2F Inside Higher Ed features a terrific essay today by economist Michael Rizzo. Rizzo takes issue with President Obama’s goals to have all Americans complete at least one post-secondary year of education or job training, and for the nation to have the world’s highest percentage of college graduates by 2020. I’ve opined about this before, but Rizzo does it much more comprehensively, noting especially that - surprise! - education can suffer from “diminishing returns.” Here’s the meat of Rizzo’s piece, but you really should read the whole thing: More education has to be a good thing. After all, receiving more schooling can’t make you less productive, right? Education is like exercise, reading, spending time with one’s children, and sleeping –... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2648970 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:42:27 +0100 2648970