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You don't care about their nationality, you care about what country you can associate them with. You then want to use it a measuring stick for that country's un
by diffeomorphism 7y ago
You don't care about their nationality, you care about what country you can associate them with.
You then want to use it a measuring stick for that country's university and research system. It is of course not a perfect scale, but you take what you can get.
For instance, this prize tells you that Switzerland, the UK and the US (or more specifically Geneva, Cambridge and Princeton) seem to be doing something right and that it might be a good idea to change your university system a little in their direction.
- chrisseaton 7y ago> You then want to use it a measuring stick for that country's university and research system. But why?
- diffeomorphism 7y agoThat is my second paragraph.
- chrisseaton 7y agoMost academics will have studied and worked in many countries by the time they achieve something major. Nobody's the product of a single country like that. These people have been educated and worked in Canada, the US, the UK, Switzerland...
- diffeomorphism 7y agoSure, but then you would want to read about "Canada, the US, the UK, Switzerland..." and would be asking why these countries and not for example Belgium or Japan. Any way you attribute this has some problems, as does trying to condense it to one country. Still just because something is not perfect does not mean it is not useful. For example, France and Germany have very different systems and culture and you see that reflected in Nobel prizes and Fields medals. At that point you can then discuss which differences are "good" or "bad" by which metric.