Because aggregates matter - people that don't participate in education still exist and live in the country - they just won't be productive workers.First of all, if we're talking BSJZ, then why are use using China's 75%? Those are modernized places and not the average, unfortunately. Secondly, what is the point of comparing all teenagers rather than teenagers who went to school? The ones that go to school are the ones that determine a nation's future. China's BSJZ has a higher sheer number and a higher average in that sheer number. This is probably your stupidest argument yet. In addition to you not showing a substantially higher high school attendance rate in MA compared to BSJZ, even if it were assumed to be true, the situation would still be way more Chinese students counted on a way higher average among those counted. There's nothing that would swing in favor of the US.
Ahh you missed the link originally. TL;DR, US students don't give any effort into low-stakes tests but students in China do so PISA scores for the US are biased downwards and scores for China are unbiased (and this is known because when you pay students for good test scores, US student performance increases but it doesn't in China)Read what study? You didn't cite jack shit.
Yes, indeed. Take the moving average of GDP growth. It's been going down.No, you said irreparable damage. If it goes up again, that's not irreparable damage. Take my link and drag the years out; China's still going up with COVID being a blip. Even the US with its multiple recessions dones't just go down in one direction.
The US Article IV IMF report in 2019 forecast the US economy to be ~8.2% larger in end 2022 than it was in start 2019 and the US GDP level in 2022 will be ~7.5% larger (penciling in ~2.5% Y/Y growth for 2022). Largely on track, if you use CBO estimates from 2019, the US is a tad above estimated levels.Take what?? You can't cite things? What forecast level? Who did the forecast? Real life, real economy with recessions vs no recessions is where I'm at.
Meanwhile, as it relates to China, the IMF forecasted China's economy to be ~26% larger in end 2022 than it was in start 2019 and assuming 4% growth in China for 2022, China's economy will be 21% larger in end 2022 than in start 2019 or 5% smaller than forecast. What's more: since the IMF has historically underestimated GDP growth in China (see the back pages of the report); the actual harm of fanatical zero-COVID on China is substantially larger than 5%
Zero COVID has sent China's GDP growth and GDP levels on a permanently lower trajectory and barely dented the United States; any supply shock (such as fanatical zero COVID) tends to send GDP growth forever lower ().
Nah, it was mostly an example of when revealed preferences with any level of cost(participating in political activities) speak more meaningfully to intent and degree than survey based approaches ever could (passing/hating the other political party.Was the student too "sleepy?" LOL Here's the caveat; if the thinks that he's too stupid to pass the class anyway or if the teacher is out to get him and will fail him anyway, he will not make an effort. Then you ask him if he wanted to succeed and he says yes, but you call him a liar because you can't let his free answer ruin your image of what you want to believe.