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Re: I graduated into the dot com bust as a programmer and made it – you will too

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My college had a 30k/year tuition. 4 years of that comes out to 120k. Your figure assumes >70% of costs are paid without debt. 30k/year is common now for an undergraduate degree from a state school with dorm.

I was asked to estimate costs of doing a college. What they estimated was that at a given moment, I would spend an average amount of an hour of money on a university's budget. This means I would actually have to budget an average of $60,000 a year to pay for it. That's $60,000 if you count out fees on each member of their state.

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Re: I graduated into the dot com bust as a programmer and made it – you will too

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Just because there's possibly some survivorship bias in their viewpoint doesn't mean their statement is automatically false.

I like to call that the survivorship bias bias. Similar to the sunk cost fallacy fallacy

Ha, that's a good name for it. We can go so far in trying to compensate for biases and fallacies that we introduce whole new ones!
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