{"id":688,"date":"2007-02-26T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2007-02-26T01:01:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T09:01:59","slug":"globalization-economic-scale-and-talent-%e2%80%93-the-realities-of-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Globalization, Economic Scale, and Talent \u2013 The Realities of Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Specht<\/a> pointed me at this video link<\/a> where he drew out the following thought: \u201cthe 25% of China population with the highest IQ is larger than the total population of North America.\u201d ((Specht, Michael, February 11, 2007. \u201cThe Growth of Our Planet and its Impact.\u201d Retrieved from http:\/\/www.specht.com.au\/michael\/<\/a> on February 24, 2007.)) I\u2019ve speculated that if you combined India and China, those two countries would be able to produce enough engineers over ten years to equal the entire size of the U.S. workforce. Consider having the talent base that you could innovate at a pace more rapid than currently conceivable just because of pure numbers.<\/p>\n

Consider Michael\u2019s thought. The 25% of the Chinese population that has the highest IQ is already larger than the entire U.S. population, not just the U.S. workforce. Let\u2019s project this to India. The 15% of the smartest people in both India and China are larger than the entire U.S. population. And let\u2019s be sensible, the smartest people over there really are as smart as the smartest people over here. The point being that they will have 10 times more \u201cprodigies\u201d and innovators than we will.<\/p>\n

Here are some comments and questions that I have and don\u2019t have answers to. (Gautam probably knows<\/a>)<\/p>\n