If you genuinely want to explore this stuff, there's a few great resources out there:
Newsweek, "best countries in the world" http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html GapMinder: <http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html> http://www.gapminder.org/ TED Talks by Hans Rosling, mostly on the subject of GapMinder: http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html <http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html> On 19 August 2010 09:37, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail/google talk: [email protected] wave: [email protected] skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
