On: Thinking too highly of higher ed

[TheOtherHobbes]

What percentage of industry-standard incompetent programmers have college degrees?

If it's a large proportion, doesn't that say something about the quality of intake, education, and qualification in college CS?

[peterfirefly → TheOtherHobbes]

http://www.drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/jobs-iq-te...

It's a general thing and not at all restricted to programming.