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[Only-virgins]

They have easily the most reliable cars, EASILY



Our schools rock, of the best 20, 17 are American

You can teach calculus to someone who is 10, that doesn't mean he understands it any better

I know MANY of foreign students who were like "I took multivariable calculus in China at age 17" but demonstrate they don't know SHIT about linear algebra in my class outside of the little bubble of memorization they came from

Yes, there are a few great schools here and a few great minds...but for this population size it isn't anything special...special for the amount of horrible and pathetic community colleges around. Math is a great subject and very useful in science, I don't get your obsession with it...I don't think it determines a cultures success.

[DoesntMatter]

Well for China, the country you think is so great, has only 6 Nobel prizes for over 1 billion people and the US has over 300 for 300 million people

I just think math is sometimes useful to determine how much logic can be contained in a persons post. As is, if they can't do math they can't be expected to have logic beyond some level

[Gribble]

Say super genius is found in .08% of the population. China ought to have over three times as many geniuses, right?

Doesn't it stand to reason that if China becomes a free nation (which it is gradually working towards) those geniuses are going to start earning their own Nobel prizes and over time they're going to overtake America?

Why wouldn't they?

[DoesntMatter]

Genetically I am highly skeptical that China is capable

While Koreans and Chinese people are smarter on average than white people, I don't think they have nearly as many geniuses

Geniuses are more often found in Central and Western Europe as well as some of Russia

[IndiReloaded]

DM, sometimes you are just stupid. We've already been over this.

Nobel prizes are the result of a *lifetime* of work. Current prizes are being given for work done, in general, a decade or more earlier.

The US *was* the dominant research power. Whether is will continue to be is now debatable.

Did you enjoy the Chinese space walk last week?

[DoesntMatter]

DM, sometimes you are just stupid. We've already been over this.

Nobel prizes are the result of a *lifetime* of work. Current prizes are being given for work done, in general, a decade or more earlier.

Not necessarily. The discovery of single reactions has been the source of Nobel prizes. The discovery of fullerenes, of reverse transcriptase, the Friedel-Crafts reaction for instance all earned Nobel prizes

[IndiReloaded]

What part of *in general* didn't you understand?

And just how long ago did David Baltimore do his work, DM? I *went* to his early talks, when he was still at MIT. Look it up.

[DoesntMatter]

The US *was* the dominant research power. Whether is will continue to be is now debatable.

Well being an undergrad and seeing the future of one group of the future of researchers and whatever has given me lots of hope, that's for sure. Almost all of the smartest kids I know here are American or Canadian, NONE of the smartest kids from any Asian country except South Korea. Because, while a lot of Asians are very smart, genetically they just lack the diversity for super intelligence

One of the kids in the engineering physics department (best in the country) shares almost all similar political views as well, we enjoy the company of eachother

Did you enjoy the Chinese space walk last week?

It's like technology from 50 years ago just got to 20% of the worlds population. Hey, same goes with our music. They were probably playing Elvis up there

[DoesntMatter]

What part of *in general* didn't you understand?

I didn't read it

[IndiReloaded]

It's like technology from 50 years ago just got to 20% of the worlds population. Hey, same goes with our music. They were probably playing Elvis up there

I agree. But, one must walk before you can run. Question is, whether they will run with it.

Frankly, so long as *some* portion of humanity gets off the planet, I don't really give a crap which nation achieves it. If its more than one, even better. More than past time.

[DoesntMatter]

Personally, I don't give a crap whether we get off the planet or not

Like I said before, I'm a capitalist and family oriented man first before anything else. If China provides me with the opportunity to get filthy fuccking rich and make a good life for my kids, you'll find me with Chinese citizenship

[Only-virgins]

Well for China, the country you think is so great, has only 6 Nobel prizes for over 1 billion people and the US has over 300 for 300 million people

I just think math is sometimes useful to determine how much logic can be contained in a persons post. As is, if they can't do math they can't be expected to have logic beyond some level

When did I say that China is so great or better?

[Only-virgins]

I just think math is sometimes useful to determine how much logic can be contained in a persons post. As is, if they can't do math they can't be expected to have logic beyond some level

A person's wisdom will be detectable through their logic and reasoning. Logic and reasoning are their own definitions and math is not necessary for either to be true..though you do need logic for math...so bad math doesn't mean you have bad logic but if you have bad logic you will have a hard time with math.

Almost all of the smartest kids I know here are American or Canadian, NONE of the smartest kids from any Asian country except South Korea. Because, while a lot of Asians are very smart, genetically they just lack the diversity for super intelligence

As I said before, we are all born with equal potential.

[ecojeanne]

The love of money is the root of all evil

[DoesntMatter]

OK people keep saying "What is keeping China from making lots of maths and sciences?"

And nobody really responded to what I said about the fact that genetically they are at a huge disadvantage in my opinion

That, and also the majority of the population is extremely poor