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A lot of this feels like measuring the results of education with standardized tests. Do they ultimately correlate to economic output/GDP? How does the US mainta
by Detrus 13y ago
A lot of this feels like measuring the results of education with standardized tests. Do they ultimately correlate to economic output/GDP? How does the US maintain it's current level of economic output if it's so stupid?
Maybe it doesn't hurt economically that larger chunks of the population are dumber in the US. Less intellectual competition might allow the best companies/players to rise to the top and multiply their effects.
Study but http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/study-argues-us.html http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/study-argu...
Where did a large number of our brightest math and physics students end up? Wall St. Their contribution is well known. The US doesn't seem to have enough productive places to stick educated people.
- freyrs3 13y agoThe private sector has plenty of places to put PhD level people with technical skills, it's just in roles that in which their expertise tends to be directed toward more risk-averse ventures and their skills tend to be underutilized. The number of physics PhDs I see in low-level software development roles sometimes scares me.
- chongli 13y agoA lot of this feels like measuring the results of education with standardized tests. Funny you should say this. Finland (right at the top) does not use rote learning or standardized tests in its education system.