[ryandrake]

The discussion so far reminds me a little of whenever a "Top N school rankings" report comes out. People who go (or went) to any of the top-ranked schools will use it to argue that their schools are better, and people who go to the lower-ranked schools will downplay the results, nit-pick the methodology, point out that the top N are all within a small margin of error, etc. A little tribalism?

[notyourwork]

Being from the US I think we deserve to be off this list.

We aren’t making America great nor are we doing anything to better the world or our own people. We emphasize the wrong attributes of success which.

[WillReplyfFood]

If one wants to improve something, one nees a little self-sadism, the wish to shine a light on the ugly spots until things improve.