With 21 votes in as I write this, I find it comforting that we cut a pretty even swath in regards to education.  It is what I expected when I started this poll, but I like hard data.

Chaunte

Okay Chaunte.  Thank you for the PM.  I guess I'll leave my vote as it is then.

tink

I have a bajillion years of school left, so that always makes voting hard. . . But working on my BA *currently*

I dropped out of university, a bit more than 2 years into my Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy / English Lit) degree.

I'll go back to finish it one day - but its no rush, I mean I have a job that pays much better now than anything I would have been able to get using my degree .

Megan

B.A.

I have a Master of Science degree

Here in Switzerland, the Masters program is divided into two branches, Master of Engineering which orients the students towards the working world and a Master of Science which orients the students towards research.  I have both. 

I have a BA in Economics from back in the 80s.  I've just started a Master of Social Work program with a clinical emphasis.  My goal is an LCSW designation.

i have flunked out of everything so far. it's what all the cool kids were doing {^_^}

Okay, Chaunte....you're running 65.6% with a BS/BA or higher.  Whattcha gonna do with these data??

Oh yes, my antique degree: biology.....estuarine, aquatic, environmental........love the outdoors, but been a microscope slave too.

Bev

Quote from: Beverly on March 03, 2008, 09:29:23 PM
Okay, Chaunte....you're running 65.6% with a BS/BA or higher.  Whattcha gonna do with these data??

Oh yes, my antique degree: biology.....estuarine, aquatic, environmental........love the outdoors, but been a microscope slave too.

Bev

Good question.

First was to answer this colleague's question.

More importantly, I am including some of the poll data in my transition book.  The purpose of including these data is simple - to show that we are just like everyone else.  We go to school.  We work a trade and have professions.  We serve our country.

We are the neighbor next door.

The more we can show that we are "normal," the more acceptable we will become.

Chaunte

I don't see how haveing some kind of a degree makes you normal. We are just like others, there is no difference. We are in all economic, ethnic, religious and anyother group that you can think of. We are not all smart and very intelligent, some are average and some are below average. I would imagine there are some who are in the mentally challenged group. We are people.
Sheila

We are people, but those "people"
don't all post here in this group.
I'd wager that its amongst most educated on average
who post on the internet in this group.

I've seen other boards and live meetings
with shall we say the less
obviously educated and with very different backgrounds
and  the difference is kinda striking
in language and outlook.

The whole ducks or a feather stick together
is very true. Someone who registers and
then reads for awhile before posting
and sees that its not their kind of group
won't post. I'm sure there are plenty of those.

I graduated HS a semester early to get out of there.  Later that year I attended Wyotech in Laramie WY.  I received my diploma in Custom autobody and metal fabrication,  fun stuff actually.  After working for a few years I have decided to get into health care.  I have to take a few more classes this fall so I can apply to our two year RN program here.  I will have my associates degree after that and I will eventually do a bridge program to a BS.

Audrey

Quote from: Sheila on March 04, 2008, 10:05:55 PM
I don't see how haveing some kind of a degree makes you normal. We are just like others, there is no difference. We are in all economic, ethnic, religious and anyother group that you can think of. We are not all smart and very intelligent, some are average and some are below average. I would imagine there are some who are in the mentally challenged group. We are people.
Sheila

Exactly my point, Sheila. 

Being transgendered is NOT a case of education, or social status, or any other such ranking.  Quite the opposite.  Not only are we like the person next door, we ARE the person next door. 

I believe that this is an important concept that far too many people may not understand.  This is one more piece of information to help make the transgendered community less frightening to those who haven't a clue what we are all about.  And the fewer fears there are about us, the more accepting the world will be of us.

We cut a wide swath through the world, just like every other group.  And THAT is what makes us "normal."

Chaunte

Quote from: Annwyn on February 28, 2008, 09:13:04 AM
Yo Nero, what's your education and what's it in?

I WANNA KNOW.

Hahaha Just saw this, babygirl. Well since you asked nicely - Zip, zilch, nada, niente.

My formal education amounts to a fifth grader's.  After 5th grade, it was all downhill here from there. Became a holy terror. Kept being removed from school. Was finally declared at 14 unfit to be around other kids and had to be tutored. I defied her and only studied what I felt like studying. So basically no formal education past 10 years old. At 18, I went in for my GED (graduation equivalency diploma).
Passed with no preparation, so apparently those 5 years of elementary school were all I really needed.

I've taken a few college courses here and there for the hell of it, not towards a degree or anything. I've a paralyzing fear of classrooms, so not up to more than that.

So yeah, when you peeps start talking math or science, it's all way over my head. 

What staid company, I guess I don't quite fit in, it's just you and me Nero   I didn't finish high school, and the only diploma that I have managed to garner is one in Common Sense.  My counting is pretty good though, c'ept that I have to take my socks off to count past 10.

Steph

Sreph,
   You have a degree in CS-common sense. Now put those letter behind your name. I put BS, but it didn't come from any school.
Sheila

Interesting, this whole education thingie, but here's another thought:  Are we different from the general population in intelligence?  That's something that cannot be measured by earned degrees.  What I've seen is, we are 2 standard deviations higher in intelligence than the general population.  And that, is a positive, advantageous trait in nature's purposely diverse scheme (to knit a few threads on this forum together).

I know this.....I'm a standard deviant  >


Bev

Quote from: Beverly on March 12, 2008, 08:14:27 AM
Interesting, this whole education thingie, but here's another thought:  Are we different from the general population in intelligence?  That's something that cannot be measured by earned degrees.  What I've seen is, we are 2 standard deviations higher in intelligence than the general population.  And that, is a positive, advantageous trait in nature's purposely diverse scheme (to knit a few threads on this forum together).

I know this.....I'm a standard deviant  >


Bev

Well, I've got a bit of a theory there ... (don't I always?!)

People are usually either right or left-brain dominant right? And also, there's the whole mail brain/female brain thing, where guys are supposedly better with spacial stuff, where-as girls are generally better with words and stuff, for example.

Here's the key though: I read somewhere once that a big determiner of intelligence has to do with how much the functionality of your right brain is integrated with that of your left. With us straddling the gender divide to a greater or lesser extent, it makes sense to me that we would generally exhibit a higher level of that kind of integration.

As I say, just a thumbsuck theory though, but criticism is always welcome!