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Re:The future of the postdoc by hudibras on Sunday November 08, 2015 @07:28PM (#10530746)
Or a counter explanation:

1. American colleges are still overwhelmingly the best in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Univ...

2. 96% of students at American colleges are American. http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2014/...

Re:The future of the postdoc by robotresearcher on Sunday November 08, 2015 @07:39PM (#10530790)
How does that explain the large numbers of foreign researchers?