Xi bucks? How are you getting Xi bucks? The only Chinese money I’ve gotten are red envelopes from my grandparents.
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Xi bucks? How are you getting Xi bucks? The only Chinese money I’ve gotten are red envelopes from my grandparents.
If you know that you have oversampled or undersampled students (vocational versus academic) - then the next step is to adjust the weightings and normalise the results.
Say for example, your student sample is 30% vocational and 70% academic.
But actually 50% of students are vocational and 50% are academic.
So you only apply the tests results proportionally to each group.
I'd be shocked if the PISA authors didn't do this as standard because every country has different types of schools, and it would be impossible to test students in exactly the proportion that you want. This is a fundamental concept in any sort of statistical research.
Could you actually critique specific points?
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@siegecrossbow
For example, here is one from Peter Zeihan that I listened to for 30mins last week before I gave up:
During this interview, the 3 biggest lies that Pete Zeihan said with utter conviction were the following:
EDIT. I see this Peter Zeihan video is almost at 400K views. And the host simply was out of his depth because he couldn't spot the obvious lies.
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1. China has up to 3 billion empty apartments and that the Chinese property market will crash to pennies on the dollar
However, the best estimate is that there are up to 80 million empty apartments, so Peter Zeihan has exaggerated by 37x.
And if you think about it, China has 474 million households.
Another 3 billion empty apartments means the average family in China would have 6 empty properties.
It just doesn't make any sense.
Source
fortune.com/asia/2023/09/25/china-housing-crisis-how-many-vacant-homes-evergrande-country-garden/
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2. China would collapse due to lack of fuel and food from a US naval blockade
Remember meat was a luxury for most of humanity's existence.
But if you do the calculations, China's state grain reserves have over 2 years of grains stored for an emergency.
China also maintains a policy of 90% self-sufficiency in terms of grain production.
Plus China can still import food and fertiliser from Russia for example.
As for oil, in the past year, TPHuang and myself independently did some calculations on the forum which indicated that [Chinese domestic oil production + Russian imports] would probably be enough for self-sufficiency, if China wasn't exporting goods anymore.
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3. China will definitely collapse within 10 years due to demographics
China's working age population in 2024 is currently 984 million.
In 2034, it is expected to be 943 million.
So a 5% decline in working population is going to cause a collapse?
The Chinese overall population is going to be broadly stable, plus I expect the retirement age to be increased.
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supercat
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They have nothing to do with diminishing returns or risk-taking behavior. The US' mediocre indicators of the quality of life such as life expectancy, when compared to other wealthy nations, are caused by the inefficiency, waste, and corruption in its healthcare system and the rampant wealth disparity in its society.
I think the most important adjustment is wealth, not only the ratio of students at vocational schools. You have to compare apples with apples. Compared to other developed, OECD countries with similar wealth, America's PISA scores are about average. China's on the other hand, is probably at top 3% even among OECD nations, despite being still a developing nation and far less wealthy.
I can't believe I'm seeing this sh*t again: first it was "white men's burden", now "white women's burden"? "The absolute arrogance of Americans to think China needs BARBIE and Taylor Swift and other shallow pop culture garbage to understand freedom. Holy fuck it blows me away every time"
The truth about women's rights in China:
Like i said i clicked the link and paused the video the instant youtube loaded. Sampled some of the top comments like this one.
Given the limited introduction of the video submitter i'm not going to spend 32 min if these are some of the top comment while i could watch or do something else in my free time. Last couple of months we have seen enough "China will collapse" copium videos. While i'm still waiting for Chinese economy to collapse and i don't mean the stock market. So i just clicked away the video and continued reading the book i was reading.
If the video submitter made a post like yours i might have actually just watched the video or never click the link because at least i would know what the subjects or bs points would be.
Cars, workplace accidents, drugs, and guns have nothing to do with “risk-taking behavior”? Obesity being rampant has nothing to with diminishing returns in nutritional quality in life expectancy?
No, they aren’t. Healthcare itself isn’t a big determinant of life expectancy because it’s only used in any large quantity by a few select chronically ill people, and the entire world is flocking to the U.S. - ex., Massachusetts General and Mayo Clinic; for healthcare procedures and willing to pay hand over fist for them. Plus Americans rate their own experience with healthcare to be very positive (). This of course, is not to say there aren’t problems.
The sampling frames are not the same; the U.S. has a much more adversely selected sampling frame. When you only allow the top 40-60% in many oecd countries to take the Pisa, that artificially biased upwards the Pisa scores in those countries. If an adversely selected American panel is performing as well as a positively selected European panel, that means in any like to like comparison, the U.S. tops most of the OECD easily.
Yep. Both the U.S. & China are reasonably well managed countries with quite good governance and good program administration.
There's nothing wrong with seeing the opposite point of view if it's legit. It's important to consider two sides.
The problem though is most of the time it's bad faith and ultimately just a waste of time. Keep in mind these anti China guys still think the Tiananmen Square massacre or Ughur genocide thing is real despite their most iconic images being blatant crops. Can they explain why the guy was supposedly stopping soldiers from killing students if the tank was actually exiting the square? Can they cite how many Ughure have actually been killed when you ask them this? So you are arguing with guys who can't even get basic things right or refuse to due to their prejudice so how are other things that are more complex going to be better?
I used to think Chinese leadership were cowards taking this approach. But now I realize, they actually can spend a lot of time debating behind the scenes provided it's legit. However they now realize the west argues in bad faith and that engaging with them at this point is actually detrimental. Actions speak louder than words.
The problem though is most of the time it's bad faith and ultimately just a waste of time. Keep in mind these anti China guys still think the Tiananmen Square massacre or Ughur genocide thing is real despite their most iconic images being blatant crops. Can they explain why the guy was supposedly stopping soldiers from killing students if the tank was actually exiting the square? Can they cite how many Ughure have actually been killed when you ask them this? So you are arguing with guys who can't even get basic things right or refuse to due to their prejudice so how are other things that are more complex going to be better?
I used to think Chinese leadership were cowards taking this approach. But now I realize, they actually can spend a lot of time debating behind the scenes provided it's legit. However they now realize the west argues in bad faith and that engaging with them at this point is actually detrimental. Actions speak louder than words.
Ethnic cleansing
What are they hiding?
The site is alleged by independent groups as well as state officials to be a place for "extraordinary renditions" (aka state-sponsored kidnapping), torture, imprisonment, black site, with multiple documented cases of massive oil spills and nuclear waste discharge.
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Damn, maybe he was not overpaid after all. Money well spent.
China's demographic decline is the funniest cope when it often comes from anti-china white/anglo people whom are usually also the same group of people to hate other "color" people. White/Anglo are also not reproducing at sufficient replacement rates. All of the growth in their countries are coming from "minorities" and immigrants.