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[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Your statement can not only be interpreted as a recommendation, it was based on an assumption that some majors are "easy." Which majors are the "easy" majors, pray tell.

According to the article I linked, students learn very little in education, business, communications, and social work. According to this study, grade inflation is highest in the humanities.

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Students are failing classes, failing out of college, losing their scholarships, and doing so poorly that they are ineligible for financial aid. I guess skating doesn't always work. The average university/professor/department is not letting students skate through with "easy" classes and "easy" majors to make students happy. There can be accreditation problems with having an average student that is a skater; and there are reputation issues when you release skaters to graduate schools and jobs.

The vast majority of students who leave college do so for financial reasons. Here's a study on that, too.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

According to the article I linked, students learn very little in ... business ...

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

According to the article I linked, students learn very little in education, business, communications, and social work. According to this study, grade inflation is highest in the humanities.

The vast majority of students who leave college do so for financial reasons. Here's a study on that, too.

And the point soars waaaaaaaay over your head.

Don't post studies to me. I know all about studies. I've read thousands of them, as well as conducted some. If this were a literature review you would fail at the ability to find the overall point and patterns across the studies that you have posted. Don't reach conclusions because you've read a study. Those studies are not designed to reach sweeping and permanent conclusions. They are designed as illustrations for which to make generalizations with consideration to limitations. They are based on qualitative and/or quantitative research and sampling. They include limitations and implications for future research for a reason.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Those studies are not designed to reach sweeping and permanent conclusions. They are designed as illustrations for which to make generalizations.

I see you are arguing with yourself in back-to-back sentences, so you clearly don't need me to hang around here anymore.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

I see you are arguing with yourself in back-to-back sentences, so you clearly don't need me to hang around here anymore.

Do you not know the difference between "sweeping and permanent conclusions" and "illustrations for which to make generalizations?"

If that's the case, I don't need you here.

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

I see you are arguing with yourself in back-to-back sentences, so you clearly don't need me to hang around here anymore.

Flounce much?