Re: [Goanet] IIT /Indian propagated myths about America

2006-10-20 Thread Mario Goveia
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Re: [Goanet] IIT /Indian propagated myths about America/response to Roland

2006-10-20 Thread Carvalho
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[Goanet] IIT /Indian propagated myths about America

2006-10-20 Thread Roland Francis
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Re: [Goanet] IIT /Indian propagated myths about America

2006-10-19 Thread Roland Francis
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Re: [Goanet] IIT /Indian propagated myths about America

2006-10-19 Thread Sunith Velho
Hi Selma, I saved you the trouble of finding the statistics mentioned by Carmo. He is way off the mark and is just propagating a commonly held misconception. If one studies the statistics for the number of Doctoral scientists and engineers by race/ethnicity you will find of a total of 685,300 an

Re: [Goanet] IIT /Indian propagated myths about America

2006-10-19 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 18/10/06, Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Sunith, > > Thank you for that very comprehensive and most > interesting post. This puts things into their proper > perspective. We are infact then not comparing > intelligence but just the ability to cope with each > country's modus operandi

Re: [Goanet] IIT /Indian propagated myths about America

2006-10-18 Thread Sunith Velho
Dear Selma and Roland, In all probability it is true that the students from Harvard and Yale failed the IIT entrance exam. This does not reflect on their intelligence but just on the extremely wide scope and high level of the IIT-JEE exam. My friends who got into IIT started studying for the en

Re: [Goanet] IIT /Indian propagated myths about America

2006-10-18 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
Roland's views can be dismissed as episodic evidence. Yet keep in mind two factors -- IITs don't represent the "average" India. And, till very recently, you had to struggle very hard to get in almost every institution of higher education in India (except the very generalist degrees of little conseq

Re: [Goanet] IIT /Indian propagated myths about America

2006-10-18 Thread Carvalho
Dear Sunith, Thank you for that very comprehensive and most interesting post. This puts things into their proper perspective. We are infact then not comparing intelligence but just the ability to cope with each country's modus operandi. Personally, I feel we have a responsibility to society, to

Re: [Goanet] IIT/Indian propagated myths about America

2006-10-18 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Roland, > > There are many myths propagated about Americans by > Indians but none that I dislike more than the one > that assumes intellectual superiority over > Americans. America is home to be best and > brightest, and I find it incredibly har

Re: [Goanet] IIT /Indian propagated myths about America

2006-10-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
Selma makes good points in the post appended below. The best American universities impart a much more well rounded education than Indian ones. And in intellectual abilities and other skills the best and the brightest in both countries are on average equal. The apparent disproportionality of the mat

Re: [Goanet] IIT /Indian propagated myths about America

2006-10-17 Thread Carvalho
Dear Roland, There are many myths propagated about Americans by Indians but none that I dislike more than the one that assumes intellectual superiority over Americans. America is home to be best and brightest, and I find it incredibly hard to believe that Harvard and Yale students failed IIT entr