COVID on Campus (with Bryan Caplan)
Building Tomorrow
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The Signaling Story Can Explain That
Bryan: A lot of time is not spent on literacy or numeracy, or anything that students are likely to use in the future. So why does matter in the labor market whether or not you went and learned social studies or history? Why would your employer actually care? And the signaling story can explain that, and the regular one can't. Ah. Just another sign is, think about how much material you have forgotten after the final exam, and you're not panicking about it. Noh, my god, i forgot trigonometry. What's going to happen? N what will become of me? Instead, almost everyone feels like, well, i got my a on the
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