I don't know why some of you respond to Jitesh, he's either a professional troller at worst or an AI experiment into convincing us he's all human and not a computer program, at best. His responses add absolutely nothing new to any thread on here.
I've gone and created a 'special' gmail rule for his responses! Rakesh On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > If you genuinely want to explore this stuff, there's a few great resources > out there: > Newsweek, "best countries in the world" > http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds-best-countries.html > GapMinder: > http://www.gapminder.org/ > > TED Talks by Hans Rosling, mostly on the subject of GapMinder: > http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html > > On 19 August 2010 09:37, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Aug 19, 10:10 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Jitesh: >> > America is brilliant, it has has more Nobel Laureates than anyone else >> > >> > Me: >> > Perhaps, but that's only because it has more people in total, it's >> > actually >> > pretty low down the scale if measured per-capita >> > Wikipedia says so too >> > >> > Jitesh: >> > No, no, no. By "more" I actually meant "better" and that they were by >> > smarter people >> > It's clear you didn't understand that because you just wanted to start >> > comparing things by using numbers! >> > You just don't get Nobel prizes at all, they're actually a lot like >> > cricket >> > >> > Me: >> > ... >> >> Jitesh, the society in the US is unique. They grow the elite (those >> with talent and money) and sets the expectations really high with the >> result that those 5% who does make it "up on top" truly are good. The >> price of this model however is that they loose the bottom 20% >> completely, resulting in probably the biggest social gab in any >> western country. Another way to see this "price" is how the US has 5% >> of the worlds population, but also 25% of the worlds incarcerated >> population (people in prison). >> >> So if you apply standard normalization, you will come to quite a >> different conclusion then you currently do. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > Kevin Wright > > mail/google talk: [email protected] > wave: [email protected] > skype: kev.lee.wright > twitter: @thecoda > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
