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Is that valid?
Here I can see something different http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_Productivity_levels_2...
Although there probably is some measure of worker productivity that US ranks best.
> ... Americans having the world’s highest worker productivity. Is that valid? Here I can see something different http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_Productivity_levels_2... Although there probably is some measure of worker productivity that US ranks best.
We speculate that in the context of mobile, meritocratic societies, cultural evolutionary processes rooted in our evolved tendencies to imitate successful and prestigious individuals will favor the spread of child-rearing traits that speed up and enhance the development of those particular cognitive and social skills that eventually translate into social and economic success in these populations. I'm so thankful that…
We speculate that "survival of the fittest" applies to people.
Perhaps part of the reason the USA is a statistical outlier among WIERD societies is simply its size. It has by fa the biggest population of any WIERD country. This means that most of its cultural influences come from within the country, whereas for a smaller country, a larger proportion of its cultural influences come from outside it -- meaning that smaller countries are less likely to be outliers.
We speculate that in the context of mobile, meritocratic societies, cultural evolutionary processes rooted in our evolved tendencies to imitate successful and prestigious individuals will favor the spread of child-rearing traits that speed up and enhance the development of those particular cognitive and social skills that eventually translate into social and economic success in these populations. I'm so thankful that…
That's some crafty crappifying. It took me quite some time to translate it back to We speculate that "survival of the fittest" applies to people.
A) Successful behavioral patterns will flourish (which is what Hayek says in The Fatal Conceit, and also reminds me of the ideas of The Selfish Gene); or
B) Societies that display successful behavioral patterns will themselves flourish.
(or both, of course)
We speculate that in the context of mobile, meritocratic societies, cultural evolutionary processes rooted in our evolved tendencies to imitate successful and prestigious individuals will favor the spread of child-rearing traits that speed up and enhance the development of those particular cognitive and social skills that eventually translate into social and economic success in these populations. I'm so thankful that…
That's some crafty crappifying. It took me quite some time to translate it back to We speculate that "survival of the fittest" applies to people.
Narcissism of small differences. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences
> ... Americans having the world’s highest worker productivity. Is that valid? Here I can see something different http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_Productivity_levels_2... Although there probably is some measure of worker productivity that US ranks best.
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=LEVEL
(Most the top countries on Wikipedia's chart have a high cost of living. A burger might cost $8 in France compared to $5 in Ireland, but that doesn't make a French burger flipper more productive than an Irish one.)
> In contrast to other large Western industrialized societies, the United States had the highest crime rate, the longest working hours, the highest divorce rate, the highest rate of volunteerism, the highest percentage of citizens with a post-secondary education, the highest productivity rate, the highest GDP, the highest poverty rate, and the highest income-inequality rate; and Americans were the least supportive of…
