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Old 25-March-2008, 04:07 AM
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Originally Posted by JimJast View Post
Think about all the discoveries made by amateurs. E.g. by a certain patent office clerk who turned upside down all what the professionals of his time believed in...
Bad example, at least for the point you're trying to make. This "patent office clerk" already had a degree (or its equivalent) from a university. In today's employment climate he probably would not have been hired on grounds of "overqualification".
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