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>"There are 4X as many Chinese than Americans" Does that mean that there are also 4X scientists in China? Ratios of total population and particular segments ca
by FpUser 3y ago
>"There are 4X as many Chinese than Americans"
Does that mean that there are also 4X scientists in China? Ratios of total population and particular segments can be very much different.
>"Per capita is more meaningful."
Also questionable as science is totally different product than say how many parts employee produces per month.
- dirtyid 3y agoMaybe not per capita yet but eventually could be more than 4x - PRC / East Asian academia bias towards hard science. PRC generating roughly OECD combined in STEM @ ~5M per year. Last rough figure was 15M total STEM a few years ago, wouldn't be surprised if PRC on trend to hit 80-100M by 2050 which will be truely absurd amount. Like west memeing about PRC 20% youth unemployment but that's at least 4M skilled labourers entering workforce per year.