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MEASURING AMERICA’S DECLINE, IN THREE CHARTS (New Yorker)
10-24-2013, 04:16 PM
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/jo...m=facebook
Much in line with Roosh's reflections on America's decline. Food for debate.
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MEASURING AMERICA’S DECLINE, IN THREE CHARTS (New Yorker)
10-24-2013, 04:24 PM
I believe this is a study of how the average people in each of those countries match up. It would be interesting to see how the top people in the United States compare to the top people of those other countries in each and every category.
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MEASURING AMERICA’S DECLINE, IN THREE CHARTS (New Yorker)
10-24-2013, 04:25 PM
i didn't realise how smart the finnish were until i saw this graph.
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MEASURING AMERICA’S DECLINE, IN THREE CHARTS (New Yorker)
10-24-2013, 04:41 PM
Shitty graphs, shitty article, and a magazine that becomes shittier every day. I remember when the New Yorker was interesting.
I love how the preceding article is called "Why Obamacare Will Work (On It's Own Terms)" and the following article "Playing The Obamacare Blame Game." Just a bunch of SWPL's who are obsessed with making the status quo work. These guys are cocksuckers.
As for the article, the charts mean nothing because America has a huge population of minorities that are part of the underclass. If you just took the college educated population of the USA, I'm sure we'd top the charts.
Second, the article assumes the countries who are chart toppers do not face any serious problems of their own. What sort of nonsensical unspoken assumption is that? Look at the second graph; Japan tops the charts in literacy and yet that country is going extinct. Who cares about speaking Japanese anyways? Why don't we brag about which countries know the most Latin while we are at it.
A country's decline or incline has very little to do with literacy, numeracy, or "problem-solving," it has everything to do with it's cultural fabric; the willingness of it's countrymen to stick together and support one another, it's ability to crush its competitors (America is still #1), and the quality of the government guiding these factors. When measured in these terms, America is going downhill fast, but that makes a lot more sense than the regular SWPL preaching about "education," which is just university dogma.
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MEASURING AMERICA’S DECLINE, IN THREE CHARTS (New Yorker)
10-24-2013, 05:36 PM
This is all due to demographics. There are a lot more hispanics now and they do poorly in school. Silly to blame the schools for this issue.
The US does have plenty of smart innovative people.
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MEASURING AMERICA’S DECLINE, IN THREE CHARTS (New Yorker)
10-24-2013, 05:42 PM
As far as I know, America never excelled in education rankings. A few countries have always been at the top. It's always in the middle or lower-high strata. We put more emphasis on sports than actually learning.
The correlation is simple, countries with good social programs do well while those with Mad Max-esque economics (USA and Poland).....you can see the results.
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MEASURING AMERICA’S DECLINE, IN THREE CHARTS (New Yorker)
10-24-2013, 05:46 PM
Charts like this play into liberal notions of closing the achievement gap. If only we can close the achievement gap, we can be better than those other countries, therefore the achievement gap is a real problem. It's all circular reasoning.
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MEASURING AMERICA’S DECLINE, IN THREE CHARTS (New Yorker)
10-24-2013, 06:02 PM
This makes about as much sense as saying there is a famine going on because American children are getting shorter... When in reality it's because the proportion of the shorter races of Asians and Latinos is increasing.
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MEASURING AMERICA’S DECLINE, IN THREE CHARTS (New Yorker)
10-24-2013, 06:54 PM
Because further increasing the over-oversight drone factory called public education is the answer to ALL of America's problems.
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MEASURING AMERICA’S DECLINE, IN THREE CHARTS (New Yorker)
10-24-2013, 08:38 PM
It is very interesting that "American decline" is the one idea that the left and the right have no problem agreeing about, even though they see this "decline" happening for seemingly different and indeed contradictory reasons.
It is the one idea from which there is no dissent.
Very interesting.
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MEASURING AMERICA’S DECLINE, IN THREE CHARTS (New Yorker)
10-24-2013, 10:09 PM
My response is the same
as when something similar was posted on Marginal Revolution:
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This canard again? ...once you account for ancestry, the “gap” largely goes away.
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MEASURING AMERICA’S DECLINE, IN THREE CHARTS (New Yorker)
10-26-2013, 09:12 AM
Quote: (10-24-2013 04:41 PM)Samseau Wrote:
Shitty graphs, shitty article, and a magazine that becomes shittier every day. I remember when the New Yorker was interesting.
maybe the grapohs are crap, but the O.E.C.D. has a pretty strong record when it comes to stats. I have a hard time though to believe Americans are not problemsolving-minded, I believe quite the opposite is true when it gets to getting problems solved.
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