Inordinate Hope and Academic 'Success'

Joe Carter provided a link to this:

Hope uniquely predicts objective academic achievement above intelligence,
personality, and previous academic achievement

I think this is likely most true because of the false nature of academia. Hope is good. Indeed, some component of my desire to get up and learn something new everyday must be hope. But hope without reason leads to Phds in gender studies. Hope without clarity of thought leads one to sociology. Hope, untempered by prudence, lets us generate ridiculous levels of debt while we perform these objective academic achievements.

Hope, much like ambition shall very likely be the sort of thing academia is rewarding in lieu of actually doing it's job. There are very many people with very little capacity for thought, who are unreasonably hopeful for thinking that they should go to college at all. Meanwhile, a few of us find our hopes dashed when we find university turned into a holding pen, the floor littered with more propaganda than education.