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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the components of the social mobility index.  It is very heavily weighted towards social safety net provisions.  I see very few components on the list that would correspond with what most in the US would associate with opportunities to be socially mobile.[/quote]

If the #1 predictor of social mobility is education, then free or lower cost university education has quite a bit to do with social mobility.[/quote]

Again, if Europe has so much access to university education, then where is all the innovation out of countries like Denmark, Netherlands, etc.  Where were they to invent vaccines that saved the planet from COVID?  Once again, the technology used to save the world on its knees was fundamentally based on American technology and scientific discovery.[/quote]

Are you kidding me, PP?

https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_gii_2021/dk.pdf
https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_gii_2021/nl.pdf
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Do I have to repeat myself?  Have you looked at the trash methodology used to calculate this 'innovation index' ? What a joke:

“Ease of Paying Taxes“, “Electricity Output“ (half-weightage) and “Ease of Protecting Minority Investors” are factors alongside “Ease of Getting Credit” and “Venture Capital Deals“

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They look quite solid actually.

Data notes
Scientific publications captures the number of peer-reviewed
articles published in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). Source: Web of
Science (Clarivate), https://apps.webofknowledge.com.

R&D expenditures captures R&D expenditures worldwide in PPPadjusted constant 2015 prices. The 2019 values were calculated
using available real data of gross expenditure on R&D (GERD) and
business enterprise expenditure on R&D (BERD) at the country level
from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) online database, the
OECD’s Main Science and Technology Indicators (MSTI) database
(March 2021 update) and Eurostat. For those countries for which
data were not available for 2019, the 2019 data were estimated
using the last observation carried forward (LOCF) method.

International patent filings refers to the total number of
patent applications filed through the WIPO-administered
Patent Cooperation Treaty. Source: WIPO IP Statistics
Data Center, https://www3.wipo.int/ipstats.

Venture capital deals refers to the absolute number of VC deals
received by companies located in the region. Source: Refinitiv, Eikon
data on private equity and venture capital, https://www.refinitiv.
com/en/products/eikon-trading-software/private-equity-data.

Microchip transistor count refers to the number of transistors
on the most advanced commercially available microchips
in a given year. Source: Karl Rupp, data available at https://
github.com/karlrupp/microprocessor-trend-data.

Costs of renewable energy captures the global weighted average
levelized electricity cost of solar photovoltaics and onshore wind.
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), https://www.
irena.org/publications/2020/Jun/Renewable-Power-Costs-in-2019.

Drug approvals refers to the number of new drug approved
by the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA). The data
include both small molecule drugs and biologics. Source:
FDA, https://www.fda.gov/media/135307/download.
Labor productivity refers to the world total of output per
hour worked, as estimated by The Conference Board. Source:
The Conference Board Total Economy Database™, https://
conference-board.org/data/economydatabase.

Life expectancy refers to the number of years a newborn infant would
live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay
the same throughout its life. Source: World Development Indicators,
https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators.

Carbon dioxide emissions refers to fossil emissions,
excluding carbonation, for the world, measured in
billion tons of CO2 per year. Source: The Global Carbon
Budget 2020, https://doi.org/10.18160/gcp-2020.[/quote]

Laughable.[/quote]

In your first criticism of the index you asked about publications and patent filings.  I've shared the indicators that place these very same indicators very high on the list.

But it's still "laughable" because it doesn't support your point of view.

Why don't you bring your own evidence then?[/quote]

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