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They may get the best results, but there are a lot of contributions to society that have come from less educated people. A lot of great athletes, musicians, in
by maxklein 17y ago
They may get the best results, but there are a lot of contributions to society that have come from less educated people.
A lot of great athletes, musicians, inventors, generals, etc, have come from societies where the average result is not so high.
Finland may have a high education level - but I could also make the claim that Finland is boring. If everyone gets educated the same, then everyone turns out the same and there is little diversity of thought.
So I really don't think the world should aim towards using the finish system.
- enjo 17y agoI'm sure neither of us are going to be receiving a lot of upvotes, but I don't think your completely wrong. I've spent a fair amount of time in Finland working with various teams at Nokia. While Nokia obviously does a lot of things right, their decision making always baffled me. Watching Series 60 evolve was just baffling. They're emphasis on consensus around decision making led to all sorts of 'designed-by-committee' products built right into the core of S60. For example, S60 had an app-store long before the iPhone. It was a usability nightmare. It had different 'catalogs' each mostly selling the same stuff. Navigation was nearly impossible. You where dumped into a home screen with no real affordances. The whole thing was just a nightmare. It was that type of decision making and general lack of forward thinking that delayed the launch of the touchscreen S60 phones for years. When they did hit, they where far away from the iPhone in a lot of ways. It was really no wonder that iPhone leap-frogged them so effortlessly in terms of usability (and has taken a big chunk of their market share as well).