That's just made my day :) On 19 August 2010 10:21, Rakesh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]<javaposse%[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]<javaposse%[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]<javaposse%[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.
