{"id":25041,"date":"2015-07-29T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=25041"},"modified":"2015-07-29T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T15:46:04","slug":"study-those-who-go-to-college-earn-more-degrees-over-lifetime-than-those-who-do-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/07\/study-those-who-go-to-college-earn-more-degrees-over-lifetime-than-those-who-do-not.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Study: Those Who Go To College Earn More Degrees Over Lifetime Than Those Who Do Not&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25042\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/07\/800px-Princeton_University_Chapel_2003.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25042\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/07\/800px-Princeton_University_Chapel_2003-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Princeton University chapel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I don\u2019t know the details, but it\u2019s likely that the investigators on this path-breaking scientific study had to work in challenging ecosystems such as this one, at Princeton University.<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All too often, the results of modern science (e.g., relativity, quantum physics, plate tectonics, and so forth) go against our common sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s really comforting when, once in a while, cutting edge scientific research confirm widely-held assumptions, as here:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/study-those-who-go-college-earn-more-degrees-over--50926\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/study-those-who-go-college-earn-more-degrees-over\u201350926<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to John Hancock for bringing this important item to my notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I certainly hope that government funding was involved in the research!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Victoria, British Columbia<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 All too often, the results of modern science (e.g., relativity, quantum physics, plate tectonics, and so forth) go against our common sense. \u00a0 So it\u2019s really comforting when, once in a while, cutting edge scientific research confirm widely-held assumptions, as here: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/study-those-who-go-college-earn-more-degrees-over\u201350926 \u00a0 My thanks to John Hancock for bringing this important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Study: Those Who Go To College Earn More Degrees Over Lifetime Than Those Who Do Not&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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