GOOD LUCK AMERICA

Why are American "students" so terrible at STEM?

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because USA is only 56% white now

>15 year olds
china has a weird ego about wanting to have the smartest high schoolers, and then when they get to college they have no pressure anymore. i think it's because research requires an element of creativity

IMO kids don't stay kids long enough anymore.

Places like China and Japan turn kids into robots. High suicide rates, high competition for a 20% improvement?
Doesn't seem worth it to me.

Other countries have to be picky with higher education. America just says 'fuck it, anyone can go, just rack up loan debt'. It works (barely) in America because the loans are mostly paid back. Other countries can't really do that, they'd just go broke.

So other countries are extremely picky and favor results over ingenuity. They might not get the Nobel level scientist, but they'll get 10 scientists for the price of 1.

Most Chinese/Indian people in my field (PhD Synthetic Organic Chemistry) are lacking in both theory and imagination though. They ace tests, but in the real world when a problem arises, they go into panic mode and generally can't translate their memorization into a solution. You can flash some random named reaction up on a board though and they'll call it out no problem.

It does come in handy, and they're not bad scientists by any stretch, but I'll say this: an application comes in and it's 10 green cards with foreign PhD's and 1 american, I'll always hedge on the american and at least give them an interview. Not saying they get the job, it's still hit or miss, but you have a much better chance of finding a solid scientists with an american PhD. (we throw all H1B visa's in the trash)

chinese people have a nasty habit of cheating on tests. their culture is very ruthless. they also fake results a lot which is annoying if you try to replicate or use their papers

Demographic anchors

WOW!!

Niggers

nice y axis