{"id":194,"date":"2014-02-23T09:20:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T15:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-02-11T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T04:21:09","slug":"is-a-college-education-worth-your-time-and-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/2014\/02\/23\/is-a-college-education-worth-your-time-and-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a college education worth your time and money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Is college still worth it?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/money\/la-fi-mo-earnings-college-premium-0140211,0,554341.story#axzz2t3YqsW8Y\">Is college still worth it?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This study examines whether or not having a college education makes a difference in the earnings employees receive.<\/p>\n<p>1. When thinking about the purpose of this study, would you qualify it as explorative, explanatory, or descriptive research? Why?<\/p>\n<p>2. Do you think that the variables in this study (education level and potential earnings) constitute a cause an effect relationship? Why or why not? If not, which element(s) of causality is\/are missing?<\/p>\n<p>3. What are the potential limitations of this study? Consider how the data was collected.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is college still worth it? This study examines whether or not having a college education makes a difference in the earnings employees receive. 1. When thinking about the purpose of this study, would you qualify it as explorative, explanatory, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/2014\/02\/23\/is-a-college-education-worth-your-time-and-money\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/swk504\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}