Yeah, sure it is, because that's horrible advice. Does anyone actually believe that all degrees are equally valuable?
I think people have a general idea of which degrees are more valuable than others, a flawed and vague idea to be sure, but it's not obvious that this data is more accurate than that.
I wonder if you couldn't get very similar results by asking people on Mechanical Turk to rank degrees by what they thought was their value.
Regardless of how it fares against other advice, it still has flaws that can significantly affect its accuracy; and I'd want anyone I cared about to understand that before making decisions based on it.
I think people have a general idea of which degrees are more valuable than others, a flawed and vague idea to be sure, but it's not obvious that this data is more accurate than that.
I wonder if you couldn't get very similar results by asking people on Mechanical Turk to rank degrees by what they thought was their value.
Regardless of how it fares against other advice, it still has flaws that can significantly affect its accuracy; and I'd want anyone I cared about to understand that before making decisions based on it.