It will only amount to 3% of the US population. China’s cut out amounts to 13% percent. A 1.41 billion is a lot of people and I understand they don’t want to skew the results. If just taking account that slice, which a quick search says it’s 180 million people, that reading is more than half of the US population. It’s a matter of scale. I’m sure they can add some other provinces to total the US population and still have a higher score.
TBH, its EVEN more filtered than that. Zhongkao cuts out "dumb" kids. Migrant kids with wrong houkou can't drag down BSJZ scores, i.e. "dumb" kids get filtered out. But dumb is relative, IIRC PISA does ~10 Chinese provinces, even the shit tier ones that don't make BSJZ cuts had global average PISA 20 years ago, i.e. when those places were legit impoverished. Those provinced developed a lot since, their scores should regress towards tier1 mean - relative to growth a third tier city has more now than 1st tier 20 years ago. The main skew is like 20-30% of actually dumb kinds, because they got diverted to vocational, their education fine but less rigourous.
Eitherway, hard to say, but look at proxy indicators, there's fuckload of "dumb" Chinese international students... i.e. those who couldn't hack GaoKao that are basically A students in western tertiary. And as others have mentioned, BSJZ + kids that pass zhongkao is basically more 2+ standard deviation talent pipeline than OCED combined, disproportionately directed at technical tertiary, i.e if you want to know who has most big brains whose going to be doing the cooking in the future, BSJZ is good indcator.
Certain people were so desperate for the female Steve Jobs, that when a woman came along literally cosplaying Jobs, they jumped without asking any questions.
People will say that until it doesn't. We're currently in the largest research investment in history for this, and have made a crazy amount of progress since even five years ago.
I'm not cocky enough to bet against it. Especially since now AI is solving frontier math problems, debugging better than humans, and writing most of the content posted to Hacker News.
lol suuure it does. I totally believe that becoming homeless causes people to stand on sidewalks jabbering obscenities and smearing shit all over the place.
Why the fuck are we so soft on these gutter trash in this country.
Yup, drive to any town a few miles outside a city and the bathrooms will be nice and clean, drug stores won’t have everything locked up, cafes and gas stations don’t have all their bathrooms locked up with keypads.
Hmmm…remind me again why I should trust ‘team blue’ with running my city?
Which are vastly overblown. I diet every year as part of bodybuilding, at a range of intensities and durations, and have never had issues with sudden metabolic changes that make it harder to lose weight.
Your body naturally tries to maintain homeostasis. When you cut your food supply below what your average is, and probably has been for years, your body will fight you in every way it can.
For example, I eat too much and started eating less. I now eat normal portions instead of portions fit for 2 people. I have more than enough food and energy, and yet, I am hungry. The hunger is fake, I certainly don’t need more calories. But my body thinks it does based off of its knowledge.
That’s nice. Many peoples’ experience differs. Congrats on it working on your computer.
Personally on the whole I’ve had no issues with controlling my weight. I’ve had a couple of isolated instances where I felt hungry all the time and started gaining weight rapidly despite my best efforts. Circumstances changed and it stopped. It sucked and I learned a new level of empathy for the people who get this all the time and not just as a one off.
"This doesn't happen to me, so clearly it doesn't happen to enough other people to be a real thing."
Also consider that, as a bodybuilder, everything about you that matters to this discussion is significantly different from someone who is not a bodybuilder, which is most people.
See that’s the problem. What works for you doesn’t work for others like me that have tried dieting. It’s the food noise that’s the problem and it’s a mental issue. Glp-1 has helped me a lot. The metabolic changes are kind of insane. Even doing keto which did help lose weight didn’t have this kind of effect on me.
> It’s the food noise that’s the problem and it’s a mental issue.
Yes, I've been through this, and I think it's the reason I got fat in the first place. I had a constant feeling of hunger, but which was "fake", as some other commenter put it, since I was clearly eating more than enough.
But I've found that one way to fight this, which at least worked for me, was not just eating less, but eating differently. I increased foods with low calories per volume, such as salads, peppers, peas, and the like, and combined them with some form of high-protein, low-fat meat. This fills my stomach for a good while, and this feeling of fullness chased away the food noise. I just couldn't think about eating anything, since my belly still seemed full a long time after the meal.
I bet if the US only submitted scores from select wealthy Massachusetts and NoVA counties you’d see some crazy numbers.
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