[colorado tanker]

One reason a college degree has become a necessary qualification for so many jobs is that the lawyers and the P.C. crowd have all but outlawed employers giving intelligence tests. If someone actually gets a college degree you can assume they have the intelligence to do most jobs.

[BwanaNdege]

If someone actually gets a college degree you can assume they have the intelligence to do most jobs.

Not if your own IQ is above 100 and you have any real world (non-academia) experience.

They can shuffle papers and attend meetings, but if you assume they can be trusted with physical objects larger than a desktop computer or perhaps an automobile, you are walking on thin ice.

IQ, "education" and competence are not necessarily related. I have portions of all three, in varying quantities. Whatever scores I have achieved on SAT, military GCT or other "intelligence" tests have made me neither wise nor "rich".

What little competence I may have demonstrated has come via a mix of training, study and experience. As Moishe Rosen once said:

"Experience is the best teacher.
But, if you can accept it second hand
the "tuition" is less!"

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Better not assume any such thing, some of them just put in the time!

[SampleMan]

One reason a college degree has become a necessary qualification for so many jobs is that the lawyers and the P.C. crowd have all but outlawed employers giving intelligence tests. If someone actually gets a college degree you can assume they have the intelligence to do most jobs.

A BA/BS degree became a "legal" wicket when IQ tests were banned by POTUS, and at first they were a good measure, but not anymore. Lotss and lots of dumb people get degrees, but they can't reason. An IQ test actually measure your ability to think, not just your ability to remember.

[Bullish]

If someone actually gets a college degree you can assume they have the intelligence to do most jobs.

Not if they were on a full ride scholarship to play football or basketball.
Then it's a whole different story. Lots of times in those cases someone else did vitually all their work for them and they come out saying things like "I aksed him what his birfday is"

[Jack Black]

If someone actually gets a college degree you can assume they have the intelligence to do most jobs.Not around here. They have special "community colleges" that give minorities a stipend to attend (which covers all tuition plus rent) and have a curriculum that is barely high-school level. But a degree from there does probably show you can get out of bed and show up for a job, so it's still valuable at the low end of the job market.

[Jack Black]

If someone actually gets a college degree you can assume they have the intelligence to do most jobs.Not around here. They have special "community colleges" that give minorities a stipend to attend (which covers all tuition plus rent) and have a curriculum that is barely high-school level. But a degree from there does probably show you can get out of bed and show up for a job, so it's still valuable at the low end of the job market.

[Elsie]

If someone actually gets a college degree you can assume they have the intelligence to do most jobs.

Not ME!

You want to Supersize that order?

[Elsie]

One reason a college degree has become a necessary qualification for so many jobs...

Only in the sense that it's REQUIRED.

And WHY is it 'required'?

Mainly because people do the hiring have one, and they want to be surrounded by folks who have had the same life experience as themselves.

[grania]

if someone actually gets a college degree you can assume they have the intelligence to do most jobs.

No more. I graduated from HS in 1963, at the end of the era when it was pretty much assumed that those who took even Algebra 2 had IQs over 120. Every course imaginable has been dumbed down because success no longer demands analytic skills.

[CodeToad]

” If someone actually gets a college degree you can assume they have the intelligence to do most jobs.”

Actually not. College is no longer a litmus test of intellect. They practically hand out degrees if you are there long enough and pay enough money. Toss in the various clapping for credit courses and you don’t have to actually do anything. Many courses are simply pass/fail and there is no requirement to even show up.