Also note: Israel is poorer than the US despite receiving billions in government aid and remittances.
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Choice of 2000 arbitrary & small sample. Start with 1950: Sweden & Swiss more impressive
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See post ( http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/29/four-nobel-truths/ … ) for reason 2000 chosen.
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I read it. 1950 is also big & round, and there's almost 4x as much data. Also: 1950 > 1948
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The point of the post is it takes time to go from "uncultivated desert" to "world class university system"
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Technion founded in 1912. Hebrew U in 1918. Weizmann in 1934. Hardly "uncultivated desert"
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I predict next 20 years will look more like last 20 than like 60 before. Do you predict otherwise?
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I predict that it will be somewhere in the middle.
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To be more specific: roughly (0.35 x 2000-2016 rate) + (0.65 x 1950-2016 rate)
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And where ISAZ is Israel Ashkenazim considered as a separate population: http://slatestarcodex.com/blog_images/nobel_countries2.png …
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