meatcleaver
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Of the university rankings i found this site seemed to do the best at documenting thier ranking criteria. You can also go back and look at the rankings every year.
http://www.arwu.org/rank/2007/ARWU2007_Top100.htm
Cambridge consistantly came in 2-5, Oxford seemed to come in 5-10, Harvard held the number 1 slot every year since the study started. This stufy was conducted in China by the way, so again, i like it because it can hardly be accused of american bias.
Here are a couple others:
Newsweek: http://www.eduers.com/University/rankings/top10intheworld2006-newsweek.html (supposedly newsweek did the top hundred, but all the other references were since gone, so i only have the top 10 here.) This was done in 2006
Webmetric: http://www.webometrics.info/top4000.asp.
As for my comment on our military, i was demonstrating that most technological development takes place in the United States, military technology represents a large percentage of the goverment funded technological research, and thus is relevant to that point.
As to my assertion of having the best doctors, it goes hand in hand with having the best schools. Doctors here recieve better training, and yes, have access to better equipment as well, which again assists with training. The fact that most wealthy people across the globe flock to the United States when they have a medical crisis ought to be proof enough.
The university rankings seem rather arbitary to me and I can't see how the criteria could stand up to serious scrutiny. No doubt top US universities perform well because they are the richest and attract some of the best brains from all over the world but I can't see Germany's best university coming in at 53 being correct. These rankings seem to be ranked on the English language based courses. Totally meaningless to a German or Frenchman studying in their own language. The reason I reason I have made that observation is that universities from small European countries which teach many courses in English, get much higher rankings that universities from large none English speaking countries which don't have many courses in English. If that is true, posting these rankings doesn't prove your point at all, even if one accepts the criteria to be credible.
You military might have the best technology but is it enough to win a war? You haven't won in Iraq, you never won in Vietnam, you didn't defeat the North Koreans. Wasting money on hi-technological weapons while many of your countrymen don't have health cover, is not a sign of intelligence.
As for you having the best doctors, one could argue all day about that but what can be said, is that American healthcare is not as good as the healhcare in other developed countries. Apart from it costing between 60-100% more expensive than many European healhcare systems, your health statistics are far worse. You are not getting value for money and if your doctors are the so-called best, they aren't performing like the best. Maybe its their greed and ideological adherence to the free market that prevents them from performing.
< Message edited by meatcleaver -- 2/4/2008 8:26:55 AM >
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