• @[email protected]
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    028 days ago

    I am not familiar with China’s academic climate, but I find it difficult to imagine it’s worse than situation here.

    But even if it was, they produce twice as many PhDs; it would have to be really, really bad to be less effective overall.

    • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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      127 days ago

      They produce twice as many PhDs, but have over four times as many people.

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        027 days ago

        Research papers aren’t a per-capita thing, whether they have 4x as many people or 400x as many people, scientific advancement is scientific advancement.