<p>Well, since you didn’t have the conversations and don’t have a clue what you are talking about, your opinion is frankly worthless in this case. There are only a handful of people that do this every year and they were able to run down the results of virtually every grad for the last few years with me. As far as their working conditions, you are just determined to believe the worst. No problem. But to say that the fact that every grad in this area that hasn’t pursued academics as a career (a few are working on their PhD’s because they want to teach) has found a good position “doesn’t mean there are “real needs in the marketplace” for the joint degree, just that some people who have the joint degree happen to have jobs” is absurd. When you have a nearly 100% match, I will take those odds over various alternatives.</p>
<p>Your two salesperson scenario is also flawed. I first call the law school, and their person gives me the specific information in a fair amount of detail. Where the person is working and what kind of job it was, when they know the latter. In some cases even what their starting salary was. I then call the Russian Studies department and a different person tells me virtually the same information. This is simple hard data, not playing up some features of a product. For two different people in different departments to be able to give me that kind of information is pretty convincing. You can keep believing in the grassy knoll if you prefer.</p>