On Aug 19, 10:10 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Jitesh: > America is brilliant, it has has more Nobel Laureates than anyone else > > Me: > Perhaps, but that's only because it has more people in total, it's actually > pretty low down the scale if measured per-capita > Wikipedia says so too > > Jitesh: > No, no, no. By "more" I actually meant "better" and that they were by > smarter people > It's clear you didn't understand that because you just wanted to start > comparing things by using numbers! > You just don't get Nobel prizes at all, they're actually a lot like cricket > > Me: > ...
Jitesh, the society in the US is unique. They grow the elite (those with talent and money) and sets the expectations really high with the result that those 5% who does make it "up on top" truly are good. The price of this model however is that they loose the bottom 20% completely, resulting in probably the biggest social gab in any western country. Another way to see this "price" is how the US has 5% of the worlds population, but also 25% of the worlds incarcerated population (people in prison). So if you apply standard normalization, you will come to quite a different conclusion then you currently do. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
