International Women’s Day is a day set aside to acknowledge women’s contributions to history, technology, business, art, and the world. It’s celebrated each year on March 8, and in conjunction with that, I generally write a blog post on the state of the gender pay gap. However, I’d like to highlight a different issue this year. I have noticed rhetoric within public discourse regarding the “usefulness” of a college degree. This argument is that college degrees have low ROI because higher education does a poor job of preparing students for career readiness, and that, given the cost of the degree, the compensation does not justify the expense. These arguments are rooted in the fallacy of incomplete evidence, which occurs when someone selectively highlights data points that confirm their position while ignoring a significant portion of related data that contradicts it. Higher education is not job training. The purpose of higher education is to enhance critical thinking skills and improve expertise in a given subject. And, although entry-level wages may have a negative relationship to the one-time expense of a degree, over the course of 40 years, those who hold bachelor’s degrees will, statistically, outearn those who don’t….