Why are my expereiences contradicting the statistics even when they apply to wealthy people?

[ucbalumnus]

@prpinrni

According to this statistic, only 1/4 of women and 1/7 of men earned a Bachelor’s Degree by the time they were 23. Now, I was told several times that the reason I wasn’t getting the results reflected by the statistics was because I was only surveying people in wealthy-white areas. Another thing this statistic says is that only 22.4% of white people had earned a Bachelor’s Degree by 23. Also, in the 2nd-bottom statistic I provided above, only 42.6% of white people graduated in 4 years, and in the bottom statistic, only 40% of white people between ages 25 and 29 had a Bachelor’s Degree. So even among wealthy-white people, most of them still shouldn’t have had a Bachelor’s Degree by 23. So what’s the explanation now?

Those stats you list are for all white people, not wealthy white people. Not all white people are wealthy. Presumably, the places you are asking are skewed toward wealth or educational attainment.

Your other posts indicate that you are a student at CSU Northridge. Presumably, most of the people you interact with there are either instructors or students, providing you with a very skewed selection of people to survey.