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Which is worse:

The US educational system
45%
Global warming
55%

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I'll just leave this here ..

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can we have it adjusted for capita please

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just checking the top two: % grads US: 0.021 % grads Germany: 0.034 Sooo Germany actually has a higher rate than the US.

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Yeah, the US isn't the highest per capita, but it is far from the lowest. And the fact that the US education system has scaled to the size of the population it currently serves is nothing short of amazing.

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this isn't really close to my complaint of the educational system. Just churning out large number of people who can appropriately complete testing is not the best measurement.

12:03 AM · Sep 30, 2019

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Absolutely, which is why looking at PHD completion rates are a good signal as it involves a lot more that standardized testing. In countries who do do better than the states also have free college, and yet the US is still world class.

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