Word: signalingã
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...there is a benefit from paying more for college, where does it come from? The Economic theory of “signaling?? proposes that potential employers, with incomplete information about job applicants, will assume graduates from a school as expensive as Harvard are particularly productive workers. But this explanation is still problematic. If employers were only looking for a pricey name, there would be no distinguishable difference between a student who attends the College and a crafty liar who buys a Harvard diploma on the Internet for $300. Don’t we gain any benefit from attending...
...challenged and helped by the students who attend Harvard while we do—in classes, study groups and extracurricular organizations. Graduates of Harvard are a built-in support network for post-graduate work in whatever careers students choose. And if the Harvard name has some “signaling?? sway with non-alumnus employers, it’s only because the students who come out of Harvard consistently do great things—lead businesses, lead protests and lead countries...
...last year. She was on second base when the next batter hit a long fly ball to centerfield, which Whitton judged to be at least a double. She took off running, but it wasn’t until she had rounded third that she realized her coach was frantically signaling??the ball had been caught by the Drexel centerfielder. Whitton says she used her Harvard logical reasoning skills to get back to second base: “The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.” To the wonder of all who watched, Whitton...
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