• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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    Because otherwise the data would be artificially lower in areas with more children.

    For example, imagine a suburb in Utah filled with college educated software engineers with big Mormon families. If you count the kids, it might look like people there don’t have degrees.

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      Doesn’t a bachelor’s take 4-5 years, with people starting around 18-19? I guess we’re only talking about a year or two so the higher age is to help cut down on the noise (doubt there’s many people with bachelor’s dying before 25 to skew the results)