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Their wordsDespite misleading statements by mainstream education economists, college attendance in particular is not a good career investment for most of the population.
↗Selfishly Speaking, Who Should Skip College?betonit.ai 2nd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsDifferences between the general public's positive economic views and economists' resemble other judgemental anomalies: Laypeople and experts systematically disagree.
↗Systematically Biased Beliefs about Economics: Robust Evidence of Judgemental Anomalies from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economydoi.org All 3 from this paper
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Their wordsThe paper first tests and decisively rejects the hypothesis that the differences solely reflect economists' self‐serving bias.
↗Systematically Biased Beliefs about Economics: Robust Evidence of Judgemental Anomalies from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economydoi.org All 3 from this paper