I'm always amazed, no matter what the conclusion, someone can always
find evidence for the opposite. Here are some contrary opinions.
I expect the economic class has an influence and some fraction of any
population will always be well educated and some fraction will be
poorly educated. The question is how many people in the US are able to
hold the kind of jobs that need skill. This number appears to be
going down.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/national-math-reading-test-scores-2011_n_1068474.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/25/AR2011012502534.html
Ed
On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:23 PM, James Bowery wrote:
As for the poor educational outcomes of the US vs other countries:
When adjusted for economic class, the US is near the top.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/15/u-s-scores-on-international-test-lowered-by-sampling-error-report/
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Jed Rothwell
<[email protected]> wrote:
Ed Storms wrote:
Thanks Mark. Their view of reality differs significantly from what the
people I read describe. I tend to believe my people because they
predicted the 2008 collapse while Krugman did not. . . .
Krugman did predict it, and warned against it several times. Such as
here, in 2005:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/opinion/27krugman.html?_r=0
He repeatedly described the banks' investments in real estate as junk.
In fact the
difference is frightening similar to that earlier. Krugman sees no
problem with the status quo while the people I read are in a panic.
Wrong again. He is very much against the status quo. He is not in a
panic for the same reason I am not, and my mother would not be. It
is a personality thing. We don't get into a tizzy, perhaps even when
we should. Case in point: my mother was riding a trolley car past
the Blair House on November 1, 1950. President Truman was living
there while the White House was being rebuilt. There was a series of
loud bangs. Someone said, "they're trying to assassinate the
president!!" My mother said, "don't be silly; it is just a car
backfiring" and went back to her newspaper. It turned out someone
was trying to assassinate the president.
- Jed
