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What is the smartest country in the world?
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Don Pablo
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Yeah they do, ask Jay X. It's called a pausa. Most romance countries have it, but it is on a decline because of a world economy. Such a shame.
Boner da Stoner
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I don't care what they said, just the fact there was no discussion. like opressing the media, there ARE worse things being said out there... Why not crack down on THOSE threads first before attacking the civil threads.Originally posted by Mr. Unique
what happen to the other replies in this thread?
Not Quite There
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I think what the poster was getting at, was the irish are gaelic, along with people from scotland, wales, cornwall in southern england, the isle of man, brittany in france, and part of northern spain.
A lot of scots are of recent irish descent, hence football clubs like glasgow celtic. and a lot of the protestents in northern ireland, even though wave england flags are more likely to be scottish descent than english.
Also, in england there are a lot of people of irish descent, especially in big cities like liverpool where everyone has some irish in them.
TheMainMan
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Not only are the British up there with one of the highest Nobel Prize winners but you can add the nation as holding the record for the greatest percentage of world inventions-
http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/BestifBrits.htm
http://www.jref.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18036&styleid=26
http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/BestifBrits.htm
http://www.jref.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18036&styleid=26
frivolousz21
Master Don Juan
USA without G. W. Bush!
Bible_Belt
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/a...duates_literacy_on_decline_study_says?mode=PF
College graduates' literacy on decline, study says
By Lois Romano, Washington Post | December 26, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Literacy specialists and educators say they are stunned by the results of a recent adult literacy assessment, which shows that the reading proficiency of college graduates has declined in the past decade, with no obvious explanation.
''It's appalling -- it's really astounding," said Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association and a librarian at California State University at Fresno. ''Only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. That's not saying much for the remainder."
While more Americans are graduating from college, and more than ever are applying for admission, far fewer are leaving higher education with the skills needed to comprehend routine data, such as reading a table about the relationship between blood pressure and physical activity, according to the federal study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Specialists could not definitively explain the drop.
''The declining impact of education on our adult population was the biggest surprise for us, and we just don't have a good explanation," said Mark S. Schneider, commissioner of education statistics. ''It may be that institutions have not yet figured out how to teach a whole generation of students who learned to read on the computer and who watch more TV. It's a different kind of literacy."
''What's disturbing is that the assessment is not designed to test your understanding of Proust, but to test your ability to read labels," he added.
The test measures how well adults comprehend basic instructions and tasks through reading -- such as computing costs per ounce of food items, comparing viewpoints on two editorials and reading prescription labels. Of graduate students tested in 2003, 41 percent could be classified as ''proficient" in prose -- reading and understanding information in short texts -- down 10 percentage points since 1992. Of college graduates, 31 percent were classified as proficient -- compared with 40 percent in 1992. Schneider said the results do not separate recent graduates from those who have been out of school several years or more.
The results were based on a sample of more than 19,000 people 16 or older, who were interviewed in their homes. They were asked to read prose, do math, and find facts in documents.
The scores for ''intermediate" reading abilities went up for college students, causing educators to question whether most college instruction is offered at the intermediate level because students face reading challenges.
College graduates' literacy on decline, study says
By Lois Romano, Washington Post | December 26, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Literacy specialists and educators say they are stunned by the results of a recent adult literacy assessment, which shows that the reading proficiency of college graduates has declined in the past decade, with no obvious explanation.
''It's appalling -- it's really astounding," said Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association and a librarian at California State University at Fresno. ''Only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. That's not saying much for the remainder."
While more Americans are graduating from college, and more than ever are applying for admission, far fewer are leaving higher education with the skills needed to comprehend routine data, such as reading a table about the relationship between blood pressure and physical activity, according to the federal study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Specialists could not definitively explain the drop.
''The declining impact of education on our adult population was the biggest surprise for us, and we just don't have a good explanation," said Mark S. Schneider, commissioner of education statistics. ''It may be that institutions have not yet figured out how to teach a whole generation of students who learned to read on the computer and who watch more TV. It's a different kind of literacy."
''What's disturbing is that the assessment is not designed to test your understanding of Proust, but to test your ability to read labels," he added.
The test measures how well adults comprehend basic instructions and tasks through reading -- such as computing costs per ounce of food items, comparing viewpoints on two editorials and reading prescription labels. Of graduate students tested in 2003, 41 percent could be classified as ''proficient" in prose -- reading and understanding information in short texts -- down 10 percentage points since 1992. Of college graduates, 31 percent were classified as proficient -- compared with 40 percent in 1992. Schneider said the results do not separate recent graduates from those who have been out of school several years or more.
The results were based on a sample of more than 19,000 people 16 or older, who were interviewed in their homes. They were asked to read prose, do math, and find facts in documents.
The scores for ''intermediate" reading abilities went up for college students, causing educators to question whether most college instruction is offered at the intermediate level because students face reading challenges.
seanchai
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This is pretty interesting but a little off-topic...
There are a few authors out there (Hobson and Pomeranz in particular) that challenge the notion that Britain invented the major technologies that spurred the Industrial Revolution. Hobson argues that Britain used techniques and ideas developed up to a millenium earlier in China to do this. Check out The Eastern Origins of Western Civilization by John Hobson if you're interested.
al77
Master Don Juan
This is different. This is about overall literacy assessment, which has nothing to do with creativity.
Ok, if you ask anyone "what are the most advanced, developed countried in the world?"
Most likely many answer: the US, Britain and Germany". Which is exactly corresponds to the number of Nobel prizes. They are the first counrties in the world in terms of Nobels prizes. And people almost feel it, so they don't even need any statistics to know what countries are advanced and creative.
Some huge emprires like China have.. none Nobel prizes.
Here is a partial list of total number of Nobel prizes per country:
United States 270
United Kingdom 101
Germany 76
...
USSR 14 (Which is not Russia alone, it is like 15 countries now)
India 4
China 0
diplomatic_lies
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Um, that's because the Nobel Prize was created over 1000 years after China's period of glory. When the ancient Chinese were inventing gunpowder and paper and "machine-gun" crossbows, Mr Alfred Nobel wasn't yet born.
Generally I think most nations have their moment of glory. For China it was a thousand years ago, for Britain it was the 19th century, for Spain it was the 15-16th centuries, and for France...well, never.
(Just kidding, France was once Europe's most powerful country).
The Nobel Prize only measures recent scientific achievements. The inventor of the wheel, one of our most important inventions, certainly never recieved a Nobel Prize.