In his essay “Are Too Many People Going to College?,” Charles Murray suggests that many students have great practical abilities but lack the necessary intellectual skills to go to college. Murray gives the example of a young man who is deciding between being an electrician or majoring in business. Due to his lack of linguistic and logical mathematical abilities, which are required for the business major, the young man should become an electrician instead of going to college. Unfortunately, students do not pursue their desired work field because they choose those that offer higher salaries. Murray states that the young man “begins by looking up the average income of electricians and managers on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website and finds
