I thought I was doing myself a favour

[Cato]

Let me say clearly: the things you think you need from university and the things you really need aren't the same.

So true. Earning a degree simply means you're trainable. The flavor of degree allows for certain assumptions regarding how much effort will be required to make someone minimally productive.

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Back to the critical thinking/data interpretation bit. Example from NPR this morning.

NPR was reporting on Russian hackers collecting a billion password credentials. Part of the report stated that there are 3 billion internet users and concluded that that one third of all internet users had accounts compromised.

The problem with this conclusion shouldn't be hard to grasp. I'm disappointed that NPR made this reasoning mistake.