Good Country Index - TED

[Beskar]

It's a terrible ranking system. US is listed as 26th under science and technology when US research universities dominate the top of the list, not to mention the fact that the world has been living under the age of silicon valley for the last 20 years.

It is because of your green-card policies that you are ranked so low (foreign students studying there), but the United Kingdom should be in the top 3 easily so that part is correct. Our entire economy is essentially Finance and R&D on the macro-scale.

It seems to involve figures and measures which are pretty terrible like I mentioned with healthcare. What does healthcare got to do with the amount of drugs seized? You would use figures in regards to life expectancy or heart-failure or some such.


The scales are also balanced in terms of "What you do for foreign countries" so Egypt being a big contributor to International Peace keeping is number one, when we can safely say Egypt is not the number 1 country in the world for actual security.