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It does if you're a totalitarian state that really really wants to win an ideological battle by producing Olympic medals and Nobel prizes. Only one of those wer
by solveit 7y ago
It does if you're a totalitarian state that really really wants to win an ideological battle by producing Olympic medals and Nobel prizes. Only one of those were produced.
- MagnumOpus 7y agoNobels are given by committees, so they are not necessarily a fair comparison. Olympic medals are more comparable to IMO medals, and the latter were won disproportionately by communists states with dedicated preparation: China in the last 30 years, before that the Soviets, the Hungarians, Romanians and East Germans. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mathematical_Olympiad#/media/File:International_Mathematical_Olympiad_highest_team_score_bar_chart.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mathematical_Oly...