Cavs: Germany wins fourth World Cup le by beating Argentina, 1-0

[PingPong]

It seems to breed engineering brilliance though

Weirdos are usually good at exact sciences.

[midnightpulp]

It seems to breed engineering brilliance though

The first map (below) charts the percentages of economic output countries devote to R&D investment. The U.S. ranks sixth. Israel is in first place, followed by Sweden, Finland, Japan, and Switzerland, which make up the top five. South Korea, Germany, Denmark, and France round out the top ten. Canada ranks 13th. The BRICs are much further down the list, with Russia 22nd, China 26th, Brazil 31st and India 38th.

The second map charts scientific and engineering researchers per capita. The United States ranks seventh. Finland takes the top spot, followed by Sweden, Japan, Singapore, and Denmark. Norway, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand round out the top ten. As for the BRICS: Russia is 12th, India 36th, China 39th and Brazil 43rd.

The third map plots innovations, measured as patents per capita. Now, the United States takes first place, followed by Japan, Switzerland, Finland, and Israel. Sweden, Germany, Canada, Denmark, and Hong Kong round out the top ten. Turning to the BRICs, India is 26th, Russia 34th, and Brazil 41st. (Reliable data for China were not available).

By combining all three of these measures, we end up with an overall Global Technology Index, a broad assessment of the technological and innovative capabilities of the world’s leading nations. The United States ranks third. Finland takes the top spot, followed by Japan.

http://www.citylab.com/tech/2011/10/...gy/224/#slide1

Germans: Most overrated nationality of all-time. The Kobe Bryant of countries.

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The first map (below) charts the percentages of economic output countries devote to R&D investment. The U.S. ranks sixth. Israel is in first place, followed by Sweden, Finland, Japan, and Switzerland, which make up the top five. South Korea, Germany, Denmark, and France round out the top ten. Canada ranks 13th. The BRICs are much further down the list, with Russia 22nd, China 26th, Brazil 31st and India 38th.

The second map charts scientific and engineering researchers per capita. The United States ranks seventh. Finland takes the top spot, followed by Sweden, Japan, Singapore, and Denmark. Norway, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand round out the top ten. As for the BRICS: Russia is 12th, India 36th, China 39th and Brazil 43rd.

The third map plots innovations, measured as patents per capita. Now, the United States takes first place, followed by Japan, Switzerland, Finland, and Israel. Sweden, Germany, Canada, Denmark, and Hong Kong round out the top ten. Turning to the BRICs, India is 26th, Russia 34th, and Brazil 41st. (Reliable data for China were not available).

By combining all three of these measures, we end up with an overall Global Technology Index, a broad assessment of the technological and innovative capabilities of the world’s leading nations. The United States ranks third. Finland takes the top spot, followed by Japan.

http://www.citylab.com/tech/2011/10/...gy/224/#slide1

Germans: Most overrated nationality of all-time. The Kobe Bryant of countries.

Intelligent people in America are immigrants. As in came over to make money and leave.

American are worthless business & communication majors.

Finland & Japan have arguibly the best K-12 educations on the globe. USA is Top 30 and dropping

Here's The New Ranking Of Top Countries In Reading, Science, And Math

http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-rankings-2013-12






That's another reason my parents regret leaving Poland for the USA. ty education

[midnightpulp]

Intelligent people in America are immigrants. As in came over to make money and leave.

American are worthless business & communication majors.

Keep spinning.

You still suck the of the Kobe Bryant of countries. You're like Koolaid_Man in this regard. Have some pride in your Polack heritage. Your lot might not be good for little more than cleaning toilets, but you're a brave and honorable people. Good Catholic people that has been exploited by barbarian nations like Germany and Russia for far too long.

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Keep spinning.

You still suck the of the Kobe Bryant of countries. You're like Koolaid_Man in this regard. Have some pride in your Polack heritage. Your lot might not be good for little more than cleaning toilets, but you're a brave and honorable people. Good Catholic people that has been exploited by barbarian nations like Germany and Russia for far too long.

Look at the graph I posted. Poland blows USA out of the water. My cousins in Poland have a better life than 75% of Americans. Better education, safer streets & more values. I wish I had grown up in Poland

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What Poland and Finland can teach us about effective education: Brent Larkin

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/ind...nd_can_te.html


"Describing her high school experience in the United States, a Finnish exchange student put it this way:“It was like elementary school in Finland.”"

Surveys show about 90 percent of international students believe classes are easier in the United States than at home.

The result was “The Smartest Kids in the World,” an enlightening and engrossing New York Times best-seller that’s a must-read for everyone who cares about education. Ripley spent time in South Korea, Poland and Finland - three established democracies that have rocketed past the United States in student achievement.

In 2000, Polish students scored below average in the PISA test. Three years later, they passed U.S. students. And a decade later, they were in the upper echelon in all three categories. Poland’s economically disadvantaged students, who tend to be worse off than those in the United States, did significantly better than poor kids here.

[midnightpulp]

Look at the graph I posted. Poland blows USA out of the water. My cousins in Poland have a better life than 75% of Americans. Better education, safer streets & more values. I wish I had grown up in Poland

White Americans rank higher than Poland in Reading and Science:

Reading Science Math Mean

Poland 518 526 518 521
Netherlands 511 522 523 519
Switzerland 509 515 531 518
White Americans 519 528 506 518

Of course English-as-a-second-language immigrants and blacks are going to bring down the overall average.

Also, Standardized testing. I use to fill in random answers for those waste of time tests. You think a black kid in the hood is even gonna try on such a test?

[midnightpulp]

Pisa Tests (if you can't see the obvious problem in defining scholastic ability using this arbitrary test, then you've definitely earned the Dumb Polack stereotype).

• While standardised testing has been used in many nations for decades (despite serious reservations about its validity and reliability), Pisa has contributed to an escalation in such testing and a dramatically increased reliance on quan ative measures. For example, in the US, Pisa has been invoked as a major justification for the recent "Race to the Top" programme, which has increased the use of standardised testing for student-, teacher-, and administrator evaluations, which rank and label students, as well as teachers and administrators according to the results of tests widely known to be imperfect (see, for example, Finland's unexplained decline from the top of the Pisa table).

http://www.theguardian.com/education...tion-academics

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Pisa Tests (if you can't see the obvious problem in defining scholastic ability using this arbitrary test, then you've definitely earned the Dumb Polack stereotype).



http://www.theguardian.com/education...tion-academics

This sounds a-lot like the "Well, we don't care about soccer and it's rigged against us" defense

[midnightpulp]

This sounds a-lot like the "Well, we don't care about soccer and it's rigged against us" defense

No. It's because these PISA scores are now "important" enough to start affecting education policy and the end result is you have teachers specifically teaching for the test rather than teaching an overall curriculum. They're reductive and not really evidence of anything.

From the article:

In education policy, Pisa, with its three-year assessment cycle, has caused a shift of attention to short-term fixes designed to help a country quickly climb the rankings, despite research showing that enduring changes in education practice take decades, not a few years, to come to fruition. For example, we know that the status of teachers and the prestige of teaching as a profession have a strong influence on the quality of instruction, but that status varies strongly across cultures and is not easily influenced by short-term policy.

[m>s]

>implying Germans aren't master race
>implying Argentina isn't a German colony

[spurraider21]

German is such an ugly language tbh

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[CavsSuperFan]

Congratulations to Germany! They have now won four World Cup soccer championships.
But — they are still O for 2 in world wars.

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Congratulations to Germany! They have now won four World Cup soccer championships.
But — they are still O for 2 in world wars.

Don't side against Russia in World Wars?