<p>Or another question I would add to ucbalum’s, is the difference between college graduates and their noncollege peers simply a reflection of individuals (correlation not causation). Brighter, more motivated people are more likely to go to college - these are also the people who will be successful regardless of whether or not they go to college.</p>
<p>The lack of success of the additional college graduates in recent years is a indication that they should not have gone to college in the first place - and they would not have had they been born fifty years earlier.</p>
<p>Cross-posted (and largely in agreement) with compmom.</p>