More open borders nonsense from the WSJ. Big surprise there. Thanks, Rupert.
So, according to the Laws of Supply and Demand, they're being more highly compensated owing to their greater worth??
For some no doubt good reason, Americans don’t see a doctorate as the key to a decent career anymore. For foreign nationals it is exactly the key, but Americans have other options.
This is so ridiculous. People here don’t seek PhD degrees because they aren’t necessary for the vast number of jobs available. There is such a thing as being overeducated.
When a person doesn’t know it is impossible, well they just go right on ahead and do it. I’ve come to the conclusion that most college educations teach you what isn’t possible.
This may not be because there aren't enough American applicants, but because these universities won't accept a lot of American ones. I wonder what the Chinese people would say if 44% of doctorate candidates accepted into Chinese graduate schools were foreigners. Or what Americans would say if 44% of college slots were reserved for foreigners.
One myth dogging the immigration debate is that Americans are opposed to legal immigration, and to encouraging foreign Ph.D. candidates to our shores.
This article does a nice job of perpetuating that myth, when the legal importation of skilled talent is not the issue at all.
Only foreigners are dumb enough to go in the technical disciplines. Americans know that the real action is the law. Science and business is all evil. At least that is was I have learned reading the press and watching tv.
"Confirmation bias is an area of interest in the teaching of critical thinking as the skill is misused if rigorous critical scrutiny is applied only to evidence challenging a preconceived idea but not to evidence supporting the same preconception.
From Wikipedia.
My brother will get his PhD in a year or two; all he has left is his dissertation (which is quite a bit, from what I hear.)
With all those PHD’s in education you’d think we’d be turning out more scientists and engineers instead burger flippers.
Kinda sets one to thinking...
Now that he has a Top Secret clearance and is working on sensitive military projects...makes lots of sense for them to hire a red-blooded American for that job.
Sorry to report this to you but a doctorate in anything but medicine is a POS. Especially in liberal arts. Might add philosophy, history, language, marketing etc. Just an excuse to stay in college spending daddy’s money.
As a young sales manager for Xerox, I had Harvard and Stanford big shots working for me. Elitist stupidity rules in their fake world of make believe.
Real entrepreneurs in America don’t need the elitist phonies from the worthless universities posing as education in this country.
PhD.s are plentiful in Russia, and they’ll work for $20 an hour. Get all of your electrical engineers in China and your computer science graduates in India and Islamist countries. ;-)
The best way to bust the trend at this stage of the game is to encourage it. I pray that oil will go to $200 per barrel and that the dollar will be worth one-tenth of what it’s worth very soon. ;-)
Go for it, Friends! Or get serious about dealing with Iran and increase US manufacturing soon! Vote for Duncan Hunter.
In the fields where it matters—science, mathematics, engineering, mathematical finance—there’s a good reason there are relatively few American Ph.D.’s: American K-12 mathematics and science education sucks. Of developed countries, only Canada does a worse job.
The worst of it is not that the K-12 schools fail to adequately teach real mathematics and science, but that the corrupt version they communicate (cf. recent threads on ‘Fuzzy Math’) kills the natural curiosity of students, so that by the time they hit university, it’s almost impossible to clean up the mess the lower schools have made of their reasoning ability.
Labor market protectionism in this area is a lousy idea: had it been implemented in the 1930’s and 40’s, Einstein, vonNeumann, Fermi, . . . would have gone somewhere else. The fix is to fix the K-12 schools, which will require a major shift in public attitude to overcome the entrenched interests that want to keep them in their current horrid state.
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After a generation or three of “DARE,” “Quest,” “etc.” programs in public schools this is no wonder. A Ph.D. these days is very likely a product of dumbed-down education. That is not to say the standards have been destroyed, only that liberal educators don’t have a clue when it comes to the same.