[lancesells]

Don't you think it's correlated to the person having an education and skillset that someone who didn't earn the degree would normally not have?

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

Of course I think that education matters and is the important thing here. But employers require a degree (i.e. the piece of paper) so that's the thing they are using as a proxy and so that's the thing that may decide whether you get a job (or even an interview).