02-10-2009, 12:08 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-Pandyan+Feb 9 2009, 11:04 PM-->QUOTE(Pandyan @ Feb 9 2009, 11:04 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Gsub, you say SIB IQ levels are near ashkenazi jew, why aren't we seeing the same level of scientific output then from SIB's? Any reason for this.
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I'll state the following:
US Academia: Science requires funding to be able to generate output. Funding (I am ashamed to say) requires connections (even in the US). Jewish people have been well established here in science. More Jews have the inbuilt desire to over achieve, to serve as editors, NIH reviewers, etc, who hold the reins of who gets funded. Most reviewers fund each other's proposals.
US Non-academic science: almost the same. Looser relationship, but most achievements are not individually credited anyways.
If you want to ask why Indian science is so far behing compared to Israeli science for example, easy: almost no infrastructure in India. Humongous amounts of red tape for anything.
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I'll state the following:
US Academia: Science requires funding to be able to generate output. Funding (I am ashamed to say) requires connections (even in the US). Jewish people have been well established here in science. More Jews have the inbuilt desire to over achieve, to serve as editors, NIH reviewers, etc, who hold the reins of who gets funded. Most reviewers fund each other's proposals.
US Non-academic science: almost the same. Looser relationship, but most achievements are not individually credited anyways.
If you want to ask why Indian science is so far behing compared to Israeli science for example, easy: almost no infrastructure in India. Humongous amounts of red tape for anything.