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Seems more likely that they'll collapse with too many of them. Which public services are they talking about?
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STEM mostly, I think. The NHS, particularly, recruits many doctors from India, Pakistan and Nigeria. We are also low on engineers.
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imo a lot of the reason for that is because we have such a high barrier to entry into med school, at least in the US. VERY expensive. At any rate, these aren't the guys pols are talking about when they talk about tightening emigration policy. Obviously.
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Half the questions were logically unbalanced in some way, or had distorting hidden assumptions. "Economic growth should always be prioritized over environment." "Always" is a strong leaning, but there are strength gradations in the response. >
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"There is much more work to do before there is true equality between men and women." Again, there's a strength gradation in the question. But worse, there are three wildly different implications from possible answers: things are equal; women are oppressed; men are oppressed.
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Presumably such tests are trying to get at one’s impulses/values rather than one’s considered opinion - hence the encouragement to take the test quickly and the obviously leading questions. I imagine this approach artificially inflates the size of the considered/muddled middle.
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I got GGC too. The question is too broad and deterministic. Some services may suffer badly, others not so much or at all. I answered with personal beliefs, but lack of accurate data on hand for some questions forced me to say "Neither".
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I don't like the absolutes in these sorts of tests. Not enough nuance. Like "Immigrants are a drain on the economy". I'd think some are, some aren't. Both can be true. "Neither" doesn't quite cover it. Depends on the individual, depends on the situation.
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There's some professions like nurses where immigration has been invaluable but to say the public services would collapse without them is a tad overdramatic when what would fix the low numbers of home grown nurses would be the attitude towards the profession.
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We've told everyone to reach for the stars & not encouraged students that every career is valuable in society. Combine that with low pay & there's your shortage right there.
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Yes, they would, probably, but only because our systems have evolved in an environment of ever expanding immigration
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I, personally, do not believe this is a good thing
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The statement is too hyperbolic - it suggests that without immigrants the public service would grind to a stop. Probably not - but there would be fewer people relying on certain services and without immigrants certain departments would be unnecessary. The question is wrong.
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