You can learn something new every day. Today I read that 80 per cent of people who signed up for an online self improvement program bailed out before finishing it.
As the statistic was reported by one of the providers of such self improvement programs the drop out rate could have been understated, but 80 per cent seemed a nice round number.
My first thought was that the self improvement students had probably lost interest or they had no sticking power. But it may well have been that the course content was not up to scratch. So one might conclude that the statistic was meaningless.
Of course the course provider had a positive spin. The 20 per cent who persevered and completed the course benefited from the reduction in potential competition for any of the prodigious number of jobs or projects said to be available to the graduates. You can’t beat a good bit of spin.
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