Kasz216 on 01 May 2009
| yanamaster said: @ Kasz and vlad While it must be said that immigrants have fueled the US with lots of citizens that go on to give much back to the country, the trend to go to america is somewhat fading right now, at least in Poland. Among students in Poland that took IB during high school, not many decided to go to US universities (this is in the IB association statistics for the past 3-4 years) and rather gear towards France, England and Canada. Why? Personaly i think that's because there are other places with better opportunities right now than the US. The middle east is one such place, China is the second, Middle Europe is right now the only part of the UE that will probably boast a big GPD growth (3%) during the crisis compared to the 0's and negatives that others might post. |
Maybe... though isn't it just a lot easier to get into French and English universitys though? I mean if your going for the best education. The US is still your best shot.
My point though generally is that "intellegence" is a fairly made up stat.
It really is based on how you want to measure it.
For example Vlad was using college educations. IQ as flawed as it is... is actually a better indicator of "intellegent" thinking despite the testing methods bieng iffy. There are plenty of geniuses with little higher learning.
In reality there are many many ways to cultivate "intellegence" and also many different kinds of intellegence.
