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    Default What country has the highest number of Nobel prizewinners per capita?

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    Is this going be like your argument that GB won the Olympics despite being 40 medals fewer then us?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arab Spring View Post
    Is this going be like your argument that GB won the Olympics despite being 40 medals fewer then us?
    It isn't what you expect...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arab Spring View Post
    Is this going be like your argument that GB won the Olympics despite being 40 medals fewer then us?
    I stated a fact, GB won far more medals on a per capita basis than any other country.
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    Considering only nations whose citizens collected Nobel Prizes on a regular basis, the ranking is led by Switzerland, with roughly 3 Nobel Prizes per million capita (NPpmc), followed by Sweden (nearly 2 NPpmc), Denmark (nearly 1.5 NPpmc), Austria (over 1 NPpmc), and the UK (about 1 NPpmc).

    Ignoring statistical outliers St. Lucia and Iceland, each with 1.0 prizes for one single laureate, according to the Nobel Foundation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aoxomoxoa View Post
    I stated a fact, GB won far more medals on a per capita basis than any other country.
    america won more medals based on how many grinds they had in their country.

    america also won more medals on the basis of good president dance moves



    why would per capita matter at all? for all you know maybe you won all the huge pussified events like expert ribbon waving or something. it doesn't really say anything in of itself.

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    the nobel prize for literature is culturally biased

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_P...ture#Criticism


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    Quote Originally Posted by GRIND View Post

    why would per capita matter at all? for all you know maybe you won all the huge pussified events like expert ribbon waving or something. it doesn't really say anything in of itself.

    you get another tom award
    Just stating facts, here is a complete list of gold medals won. If bragging was an Olympic sport then your country would win hands down.

    http://www.metro.co.uk/olympics/9077...n-2012-winners

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    Quote Originally Posted by GRIND View Post
    the nobel prize for literature is culturally biased

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_P...ture#Criticism
    Giving the French paedophile Satre the Nobel prize was a travesty, fortunately the stunted one chose to reject it.

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    obama to ellen:

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    Quote Originally Posted by GRIND View Post
    why would per capita matter at all?
    Obviously, if you have more people, you can usually expect to have more geniuses just by dumb luck. Having more geniuses per a person is more likely to indicate something special about your society. If you ignore per capita, you are instead largely measuring the ability of society to spit out babies, throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks.
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    Obama has won more medals that he didn't earn than any President in modern history, per capita.

    I love how the list has European nations separate, then also lists the EU...

    The first on the list is actually the Faroe Islands. I'd say that Saint Lucia would be able to say they "regularly" won them as 2 is pretty good for such a small nation and they would be second on the "per capita" list...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...tes_per_capita
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aoxomoxoa View Post
    Giving the French paedophile Satre the Nobel prize was a travesty, fortunately the stunted one chose to reject it.
    ...Sartre was not a pedophile. If you do a Google search, there's not even a reference for whatever you've said. I find it very doubtful that you've ever read anything by him, so I don't know where you get off thinking you have a right to an opinion on the subject.
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    He was an addict though, as his horrible writing makes clear.
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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