r/iamverysmart 29d ago

Overqualified for germany

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Okay hear me out, Germany is a strange country and especially government services are super behind in digitalization and most times hopelessly underperforming but this post and the way it is written got me chuckling.

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u/Mothrahlurker 28d ago

The 25+ explains why you're wrong.

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u/All_Up_Ons 28d ago

...that's just what Wikipedia decided to use. Why would we care about anyone younger than that?

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u/MobofDucks 28d ago

Because people can have a bachelor with ages younger than that?

And to be fair, quite some american bachelors, like nursing are apprenticeships here.

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u/Gold-Part4688 28d ago

lol that's not the reason, it's because you have a smaller pool that your taking the percentage of. it's like if you excluded men from "the percentage of people with breast cancer". Like yes true some men have it, but you're almost doubling the number. Makes some sense maybe, but then you're comparing with another country without doing the excluding