Wednesday, August 05, 2009

The Best?

The Harvard Business Review asks a tough question and presents findings that question an old assumption. Is the USA #1?

6 comments:

Rachael said...

It's too bad that public schools and their history classes perpetuate that belief.

Bubba the Hutt said...

Everybody knows that the country that ends up with the most gold medals in the Olympics is "the best." Quality of life, Health Care, blah, blah, blah...

daniel said...

i'm more interested in which country is "best" if you're a middle class american instead of the nonexistant statistical median.

i have a hunch it's probably not france.

Denise said...

Isn't the tagline on Bubba's blog: everyone's entitled to their wrong opinion? I see an application here.

PassTheChips said...

Daniel, if the median is irrelvant, then you are assuming a non-normal distribution, which would only reinforce the GINI/inequality statistic.

Anonymous said...

You cannot compare apples and oranges.

I am not confident that we will survive 2012... so who gives a crap anyway.