Re: Silicon Valley: Chinese universities take lead from UC-Berkeley in producing Ph.D. hopefuls

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Steve Lamont [spl () ncmir ucsd edu]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 9:19 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] Silicon Valley: Chinese universities take lead from UC-Berkeley in producing Ph.D. hopefuls

> The pipeline into America's Ph.D. programs used to flow from
> Berkeley. Now, the highest number of students pour in from China's
> Tsinghua and Beijing universities. Trailing third is the University
> of California-Berkeley, . . .

So?  Compare the population of China to the population of the US.

There'd be something wrong with China if it didn't have a large number
of PhD-qualified students.

We have this bizarre notion in the US that we *must* be Number One in
everything, when simple probability and demographics say that we most
likely wont be.

Eeek!  Yellow peril!

                                                        spl



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