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244 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 18h \ on: Are China’s universities really the best in the world? science
I don't know the answer to the question, but I think it's fairly plausible.
I also think the dominance of Western institutions in health and bioscience isn't necessarily a good thing, as I've been seeing more and more sociological crap in health journals. (And I say this as a social scientist...)
One thing to point out is that the best grad students doing most of the grunt work in labs has often been the Chinese... recent decoupling of US from China has probably impacted US research output in ways orthogonal to the Trump administration's funding shenanigans
That being said, gaming the system is exactly the kind of thing Chinese universities would be apt to do
One thing to point out is that the best grad students doing most of the grunt work in labs has often been the Chinese...
Fully agree. And not just the routine stuff, also some of the most challenging tasks. Many labs will, in the short term at least, lose steam if they were to cut off access to Chinese fellows...
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