SIO380: Does Which College You Go To Really Matter? (Part 2)
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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This is part 2! Make sure you listened to part 1! Dr. Elizabeth has a PhD in Organizational Psychology. She did a massive dive into the research on college selection and whether or not it makes a difference in outcomes. In part 2, we get to more recent studies and studies that looked at slightly different questions around this.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Serious Inquires. Only this is episode 380. I'm your host, Thomas |
| 0:21.2 | Smith. Thanks so much for joining me. And this is part two. So make sure you've listened |
| 0:26.2 | to the previous episode, part one. Part two with Dr. Elizabeth Dyche on how much the university |
| 0:31.7 | you go to really makes a difference in your life. There's a ton more here in part one. We talked |
| 0:35.9 | mainly about that classic study that seems to be referenced in most articles that cover this. |
| 0:41.4 | In part two today, Beth goes way more into the surrounding research, more contemporary research, |
| 0:48.4 | all kinds of stuff. Looks at many different questions, adjacent questions, and there's a lot here, |
| 0:53.3 | so I can't wait to get to it. Once again, go to patreon.com slash series pod if you'd like to |
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| 1:07.6 | aren't already. All right, that said, let's get over to the interview. Well, and are you here to tell |
| 1:12.8 | us like, okay, here's the real new papers that tell us something or does just know that we have this. |
| 1:17.2 | No, it's complicated and it's complicated. There is, first of all, this idea that it does have a |
| 1:23.3 | really restricted sample of colleges. There are some things that we're trying to get a broader range |
| 1:29.4 | of colleges. There's a piece that's published in 1999. We're getting closer. That looks at the |
| 1:35.7 | using the National Longitudinal Study of High School Class of 1972, and they have high school |
| 1:41.2 | and beyond surveys. And they found that there was an effect of attending an elite university, |
| 1:49.6 | but it is really, and this is something Tom said, and he was right, only between the very top and |
| 1:54.9 | the very bottom, which is not usually what people are deciding. They divided their schools into six |
| 2:00.9 | categories of top private, middle private, bottom private, and then top public, middle public, and |
| 2:06.2 | bottom public. And going to your top private school was better than going to your bottom public |
| 2:12.1 | school. Who's got those as their choices on their plate? Yeah, not much. I mean, the only people I |
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