If you don't have a college degree, do you feel that you are somehow less smart than those who do?

While I have a degree and my wife does as well, we both have never thought of ourselves as smarter or better than someone who doesn't. College is not for everyone, indeed, many people go who probably would be better off attending a trade school since we need people in the trades.

Candidly, I utterly dismiss such nonsense as completely, totally, intellectually worthless and abysmal drivel, to be quite pointedly and blatantly ignored, in all honesty....

My wife sometimes says she feels that way. But then she wins every argument, so who's really smarter?

Holy crap! these cats have taken a big draught of the cool aid grog bowl. Did biology drop off the required courses for grade school or did it get left off the common core curriculum.

That was funny!

Paraphrasing the Wizard of Oz to the Scarecrow:
I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

As a degree-holder, I don't think it's so much about "smarts" but the financial ability to attend college, and the (this is what I have been told the Army looks for) wearwithall or "gumption" to stick with something for four (or more) years and complete it successfully.

When people ask me what I learned in four years of college, I tell them that I learned what is important, and what is not important. That is, realize that certain things are not that important to either your college career, or your life, and thus not to worry about them more than their value (to your college career and/or life). This leaves you free to devote appropriate amounts of time, effort, and thought to what *IS* important.

For example, my highest graded paper (an A+) was my WORST paper I ever wrote. Why? Because I assessed the professor and pandered to his own vanity (by quoting him as a SME). Academically, this is akin to whoring oneself out, but the bottom line is that semester grade and your GPA. When I got that paper handed back to me, I was glad for the high grade, but I tossed that paper into the trash as soon as I left the classroom. In that case, what was important was the grade, and not so important was my internal sense of academic excellence. It's all in your own perspective and how you weight the things in your life. Knowing what those things are is, in my opinion, more valuable than the piece of paper your diploma is printed on.

Wow, don't bother us with the obvious we have to find a way to believe facts are not real.

I will take Experience over a piece of paper any day. Someone who has done the job for years I would believe knows the work.

Though, of course, I entirely agree with your premise, obviously, lol....