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The smartest aren't uniformly distributed across the Earth.
by hallole 5mo ago
The smartest aren't uniformly distributed across the Earth.
- jedberg 5mo agoThat's true. It is possible that the smartest 5% are all here in the USA. But it is statistically unlikely that's true.
- hallole 5mo agoYou put words in my mouth. I don't claim that the smartest are clustered in the USA.
- unethical_ban 5mo agoSo your original comment was somewhat of a tangent. the point jedberg made is that it is in the interest of a country with a strong economic and academic base to welcome the smartest people from across the world, since it is unlikely that all the smartest people in the world are in the US.
- hallole 5mo agoYes, but Jedberg makes it sound as though -- given that only a small fraction of the world's population lives in the USA -- the country has little chance of succeeding if it is to go without immigrants. I disagree, and an extreme example I could offer as a counterpoint is Japan: tiny population (relatively), yet outsized performance.
- matwood 5mo agoJapan has struggled economically for decades. One of the fixes being put forth is to greatly increase immigration.
- irishcoffee 5mo agoSo we need leetcode for immigration now?
- array_key_first 5mo agoThey almost certainly are, at least before we account for education. Education is, of course, not uniform. But... the US also has not the best education, so.
- myroon5 5mo ago> account for education and nutrition, pollution, infectious diseases, etc