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I was attempting to make what I thought was a rather obvious caution (which is why I kept my post so terse), but since my above comment has been downvoted to hell[1] I guess I should explain. I was not speculating that unemployment changes education background. My common sense agrees with yours in this regard. What I was trying to remind everyone is that this data doesn't distinguish between "education makes you more employable" and "bright/hardworking/advantaged/<insert hidden variable here> people do better in school and at the work."

[1] Why is the -4 display cap still in effect now that we can't see other people's scores?




Why is the -4 display cap still in effect now that we can't see other people's scores?

I think because the current experiment of not showing comment karma scores (other than your own comment karma scores) is done with minimal changes to the existing code base. See

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515825

for more background on the current experiment.




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