Young Invincibles Exposes Parthenon Data Analysis Bias

A recent study by The Parthenon Group of President Barack Obama’s proposed gainful employment regulations is deeply flawed, a new brief from the advocacy group Young Invincibles argues.
The Parthenon study found that student characteristics, such as whether a student is disadvantaged, influence colleges’ performance under the proposed gainful employment rule. The proposed rule, it concludes, “is effective at measuring the type of students enrolled in a program but it does not and cannot measure the success of the program in preparing its students for gainful employment.”

Young Invincibles’ brief says Parthenon’s methodology “is flawed and their results are unreliable,”  and that Parthenon’s analysis ultimately shifts blame off of for-profit colleges and onto students.