A burn that would make Chen Weihua proud. Chud tries to pretend like they care about science education in order to hide their bigotry (we know what they mean when they rail against “diversity in academia”) but they can’t even get basic math right.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    16 hours ago

    ok but that still make Zha’s claim false based on population size. I’m not even posting any of this as anti-china as I am sure you know me well enough, just pointing out it’s statistically false and easily debunkable therefore a bad post on Zha’s part.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.mlOP
      9·
      15 hours ago

      No, Carl’s claim was not false since neither he nor the OP were talking about per capita numbers. It was the original tweet that first complained about China graduating more STEM students in absolute numbers, not relative to population sizes, and Carl replied with a correction in the same metric. At most you could say that it’s misleading to cite absolute numbers without also mentioning differences in population size, but again, that’s on the OP.

      I guess the original poster thinks that even though the US has a smaller population, they should be graduating more STEM students than China, probably because they’re a silly racist who thinks that non-Western countries wouldn’t or shouldn’t even be able to achieve the same, let alone better, performance per capita as the US if it weren’t for “the Left” and their “diversity” messing things up.