Russia: Waterboarding is for sissies

[yanamaster]

Kasz216 said:

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.

 

 

While it's true that the US can boast having the Ivy league and generally you have a uni that's either the 1st or 2nd best one out there in the world, that doesn't mean that you can't get a better specialization elswhere.

a friend of mine is studying business economics in Toronto university which only turns out to be something like the 5th or 7nth best economic university in the world, so you have to put some context into it. Another friend made it into imperial college in London which is known for being one of the better universities when gearing towards engineering.

It's hard to create a measuring system for something as abstract as intelligence. It's a combo of your analysis+deduction skills but also it is the general amount of knowledge that you can possess. It's whether someone can tell you after so many years of schooling if he knows why if you take a burning charcoal out into a very well lit place then the charcoal isn't red but black, if he can tell me why there are earthquakes and how they occur or even if he can tell me the proccess of photosynthesis without using the word "magic".