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From your link: > Nobel Prizes (including the SRPESMAN) have been awarded 609 times to a total of 943 people and 25 organizations Using the number of 943 peop
by travem 4y ago
From your link:
> Nobel Prizes (including the SRPESMAN) have been awarded 609 times to a total of 943 people and 25 organizations
Using the number of 943 people, a majority of Nobel Laureates (meaning more than 50%) would be more than 472 people. US + UK is 538 people which puts them above that threshold of being a majority.
- sva_ 4y agoI guess if you put it that way, the statement might be correct. But the disparity between US and UK being so big, I feel like the argument is a bit weaker. Using the average on such a small set doesn't seem to be so useful if there is such an outlier. There are some interesting lists here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_laureates_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_lau... I guess you could also look at laureates by country born, considering many people went to the US in WW2. But I imagine it'd just devolve into senseless nationalism.
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoComparing the US against any other Western country (and most others) using absolute numbers is usually an exercise in https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/. It's physically bigger (except maybe similar to Canada and Australia, both of which have big uninhabited areas) and has more people.