Test Finds [39% of] College Graduates Lack Skills for White-Collar Jobs

Wall St. Journal ^ | January 16, 2014 | Douglas Belkin

[GOPJ]

Considering the quality of liberal ‘professors’ we’re lucky they can read.

[grundle]

I agree with you that it would be interesting to see the numbers broken down by major.

[grundle]

Yep. It’s better to make a good living as a plumber than to get a worthless degree and work at Starbucks.

[ladyjane]

Yes - a line can be drawn through the dots. There are different ways to do it. The one that is most useful is a least squares line. That means all the dots are closest to the line in terms of their squared values. It sounds weird but with a visual it would be very clear.