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Looks better in links. :)

Nice article about an interesting person. Inventive, full of energy; qualities I wish I had. It's interesting to see how she started as a software engineer (like me) and ended up as a VP. I can't see myself making that same jump although it's interesting to see how someone else did.

Wish I was smart enough to go to Stanford.

So If we don't choose to immediately respond you automatically declare a default victory?

Because even if we can't disprove your assertion, we are expected to go along with your idea without question?

In the absence of more information about the graph and how the data was created, yeah. The rest of what she says, though, are mostly bizarre inferences. Based on that, and reading the rest of her profile, I don't think she really cares about science. I have a hard time thinking that people would, as a society, willingly choose to not have clean running water, environmental protection, or sewage treatment plants because it might not be "pious".

The thing to ask now should be to ask is what is the casual relationship, if any, between the two data sets and if there is a way to test the relationship. I think she may also be missing out on the idea of "aggregate" sums.

If you look at the color of the dots, though, you see that richer continents don't overlap; or at least, they seem discrete. That's interesting.

I think that one of the things this article was getting at was that it feels like one is not captain of their own ship when they do science as a career. Ie, no matter how hard or much you work you won't get your due rewards.