Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Problems in Education - Less Wrong

65 Post author: ThinkOfTheChildren 08 April 2013 09:29PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2013 09:28:32PM 3 points [-]

Chicken-and-egg problem: Non-economics majors don't think economically enough to choose fields on the basis of their remuneration?

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 10 April 2013 09:46:14PM 0 points [-]

That seems to explain why Econ majors get a premium, but that doesn't seem to explain why econ majors don't rank higher, or am I missing something?

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