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Re:The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks mor... by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @09:36AM (#10152187)
Right, now measure on a per-capita basis or on the basis of percentage of GDP. At least it's adjusted for bloody inflation.
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Re:The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks mor... by T-A on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @06:03PM (#10156107)
So more dollars are cuts if population or GDP grows faster?

Does the same principle apply to other quantities too? Let's try a fun one: atmospheric CO2 concentration. From 1980 to 2012, it grew roughly 17% [1]. During the same period, world population grew 57% [2], and gross world product grew 144% [3]. So atmospheric CO2 has been drastically cut? :P

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...

[2] http://www.geohive.com/earth/his_history3.aspx

[3] http://kushnirs.org/macroeconomics/gdp/gdp_world.html

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