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Shooting at Santa Fe High School
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(05-25-2018, 12:29 AM)Jagfan44 Wrote:(05-20-2018, 10:29 PM)MalabarJag Wrote: How many Finns have won a Nobel prize in a hard science? As I stated, I used Nobel prizes a a criterion because it was a readily available quantitative measure. I view it in the same way I view using the Pro Bowl to evaluate GMs. It's not really accurate, but it's not totally inaccurate either, and it's easy to compile. I'm calling physics, chemistry, and biology (including medicine) the "hard"sciences that have Nobel prizes. The others are economics, literature, and peace. The criteria for those three prizes delve deeply into politics. The science prizes can be affected by political considerations too, but are generally more objective. Maybe you'd like to comment on whether the Swedes look favorably or unfavorably at a scientists from another Scandinavian country? Offhand, I'd guess that if anything it would be a political advantage to come from Finland in this case. As far as "sticking up for my people" does that mean you are from Finland? If so, I'm always happy to see Jags fans from foreign countries, even the clueless Leftists who post about American politics. My post was about sticking up for my people, namely the US education system. I have many complaints about US schools, but I don't like to have them called inferior to some other country, especially from a foreigner posting here. Now if you want to complain about my statements, at least do the math. 320 is 58 times more than 5.5. The US has had a combined (roughly since it's from a Google search graph) 250 Nobels in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, so, all things being equal, you'd expect 4 or 5 people from a country of 5.5 million to win a Nobel prize in those fields. The original poster claimed Finland has a better educational system, so that would imply there should be significantly more than 4 or 5. Only one Finn has ever won a Nobel prize in those categories. There are, of course, many factors here. Many of the US citizens who won Nobel prizes were naturalized citizens educated in other countries. There's a time factor too since the discussion of educational quality is about recent times, so older Nobel prize winners don't apply. Considering the one Finn who won a Nobel prize had an education that predates the existence of Finland, that number goes to zero. We all know what happens when you divide by zero, the number of Americans educated in the US school system vs. the number of Finns educated in the Finnish school system becomes infinite. And yes, none of this applies to school shootings. Like I said above, I was just defending my people. "Why should I give information to you when all you want to do is find something wrong with it?" |
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