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To: Arran Yuan who wrote (10747)	1/19/2026 10:18:19 PM
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I agree with you that number of publications is a poor proxy for academic excellence. IMO, the best proxy for quality of education is the number of Noble awards and other top international awards. If you go by that, the US is by far ahead of everyone else, but there are two major problems with it: (1) Noble prize and other top awards are given after the impact can be judged, which is typically at least a decade and typically 30 years. So that doesn't tell us about what is happening now. (2) The US is able to attract the best an brightest from the rest of the world. Nothing wrong with that. But just because one is able to "hire" the best or put a great international team together, it doesn't mean one is doing great locally. Fundamentally Americans have not prioritized science for a long time. In my opinion this was mostly because being in America a geek does not bring you the same prestige and money that it does in the rest of the world. That honor goes to being a great businessman, and then lawyer or marketing. But in recent years many in the US has actually become anti-science. I ran a little query to see how the university student competitions has gone in the last few years. ICPC (Programming) Recent top performers (2021–2025) include: China (multiple golds) Russia (multiple golds) Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto) South Korea (Seoul National University) United States (MIT world champion 2021) iGEM (Synthetic Biology) Recent top performers (2024–2025): Germany (Heidelberg, Marburg) China (multiple top-10 teams) Switzerland (EPFL runner-up) Canada (McGill wins 2025 Grand Prize) Czech Republic (Brno wins 2025 Overgrad)

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