Sunday, November 23, 2014

Added Value of Philosophy

Jeffrey Dorman has an article on the Forbes website, in which he computes the added value of earning a Bachelor's degree in the humanities, as opposed to stopping with a high school degree.  Perhaps surprisingly,  the humanities do pretty well.  The extra value of a degree in philosophy, e.g., amounts to an average of over $600,000 over a lifetime.

One should, of course, take these correlations for what they are and hence not infer any causal connection.  But it's nice to know that the correlation is positive!   (h/t Daily Nous)

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