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🚨🚀 New piece on why developing country growth matters for progress #ProgressStudies has focused on rich country growth, but developing countries have an important role to play in pushing the knowledge frontier cc:
2/ Continued progress requires advances at the global technological frontier. But by various measures the rate of scientific advances has slowed. We need to increase the number of people engaged in research.
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3/ Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. Trying to find lost Einsteins across the world, one by one, is useful but only scales linearly.
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4/ To achieve nonlinear scale, we need to create a broader ecosystem in which lost Einsteins can emerge and thrive naturally. That requires economic growth in developing countries.
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6/ More directly, developing country growth can advance frontier growth by increasing the global stock of people who can engage in scientific research and innovation.
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7/ This is more than theory. China & India offer concrete examples. Both show that countries don’t need to fully catch up in income terms to meaningfully contribute to the technological frontier. And catch-up growth can quickly turn into frontier progress itself.
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I noted conservatives clearly fell for fake news, which I was able to see through in two seconds. The replies are either anger at pointing this out or changing the subject. Liberals at least pretend to care about truth (“studies say”, etc.). What’s happened to the right is sad
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This is very tangential, but even among scientists, debunking doesn't work. Let's look at some of the empirical work on the topic of replication failures. First: papers that don't replicate receive more citations than ones that do.
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So uhm….A new meta-analysis of >200 effect-sizes (n > 60,000) in @NatureHumBehav found that on average debunking scientific misinformation had no effect 😳 Yikes! nature.com/articles/s4156
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