> The causation is hard to pin down precisely but the story roughly goes: macro-economic change changes the value of higher education credentials as information technologies and financialization make labor more de-centralized and efficient. Politics and culture wars de-legitimize higher education by attributing social policy failures to colleges and universities. This de-legitimization accelerates and legitimizes…

> The respondent has no say in how we end up interpreting the data they gave us for free, whom we group their responses with  [source](https://blog.mahabali.me/social-research/why-do-we-do-surveys-anyway/)