If I am reading that chart correctly, immigrant children to the US score (even) lower than US-born children. But then the analysts make an adjustment for children who speak a language other than English. As always, the magic is in the adjustments to actual measured data.
The higher performance of immigrant children in the UAE is easily explained – Immigrants who have the status to bring their families are mainly well-educated Indians doing the heavy technical lifting in that country. With professional parents and strong family backgrounds focused on education, it is hardly surprising that their children tend on average to outperform the local children. Nurture over Nature.
Many things are correlated which have no causation relationship. I’ve seen people impute the post-war boom to the fact that all of our customers had their industries destroyed, and once they rebuilt with new factories and new equipment, were better able to compete with us, ending the boom.
The political alignment with Democrats has wiped out Higher Education’s reputation with Republicans and even diminished its reputation among the Democrats:
“and you’re” from the audio became “Your” in the post.
Looks more like the work of one of Palantir’s social media assistant PR managers who watched Tik Tok twice and got an A+ on some crazy paper because their professor couldn’t get a job anywhere else.
Under a plan announced Thursday, the government would consider overriding the patent for high-priced drugs that have been developed with the help of taxpayer money and letting competitors make them in hopes of driving down the cost.
The conditions for how those “march-in rights" would be used have long been debated. Pharmaceutical companies have pushed back on the idea that prices alone are enough for Washington to act against a drug’s patent. The process proposed by the administration would clarify that the drug’s patent could be in jeopardy if its price is out of reach for Americans, White House officials said.
Even a high-schooler would recognize the inevitable consequence of such an action – the number of new drugs being developed would crash. And that would not necessarily be a Good Thing, with the microbial world busy developing resistance to today’s antibiotics.
A government that was not populated with female graduates of elite schools might think of something more constructive for FedGov to do – such as streamlining & simplifying the normally incredibly long & expensive process for approval of new drugs (but not for “Covid” drugs, apparently).
Anyway, what does this matter? The pharmaceutical industry has largely moved to China and India. Perhaps FedGov might like to do something to reverse that unfortunate trend?
This and many other posts highlight the need for augmentation of the ‘like’ feedback. I suggest a small icon of Charlie Brown with the ‘gloom’ cloud as an alternative to the heart.
