Kinda off-topic, but I feel like they could gain a lot by opening their graphics stacks or simply by letting FOSS devs work on them, instead of making their work more difficult/impossible (see: history of the FOSS lima driver).
This has directly affected the ranking of Chile in a negative way, for at least 4 years.
The person who was in charge of the group responsible for the supposed "screw up", Augusto Lopez-Claros, is chilean.
Chile currently has a "socialist" female president that has been in government for almost 4 years, and is leaving on March. There were elections last year in Chile ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_general_election,_2017 ), and the opposition candidate, Sebastián Piñera, won against the continuity candidate. Part of his campaign was based on the idea that Chile could become a "Chilezuela" if his adversary won.
AFAIU (prolly not much), GDP measures money that comes and goes to/from a country. If, let's say, products/services were exchanged directly, without moving money, that wouldn't be counted; OTOH, if certain country, say the US, gave money to another country only to buy products from US companies, that would count doubly... Which is why it's really bad as a tool for comparing wealth of nations.
What I mean is exactly what I said: start by looking at the dirt your own country may have BEFORE looking at someone else's dirt. You may learn a thing or two about your government, the upper classes in your country, the racism and xenophobia they use as a way to get more power elsewhere, the reasons the other governments have to do what they do, etc.
It is normal (be it "lefty" democratic, or republican US presidents) for the US government to use its power to destroy other countries and steal its resources...
And yet here you are discussing "cynicism and [...] deliberate single mindedness".
As a lefty, you fail to put things in perspective... But I guess it's just not convenient, sometimes, is it?
As opposed to the "blood money" invested by the US govt. in technology companies? Do you also have problems with Twitter, Google and Facebook getting money from the US govt.?
Let's not forget, the US govt., both Republicans and Democrats, have directly or indirectly killed millions of people in the last decade...
I don't see you complaining about that "blood money" here or anywhere, though.
I suggest that you don't buy the hype and the bullshit. All this China/Russia stuff... It's nothing new, and it's not like the US doesn't do the same, and worse.
And yet here we are, talking about the russians "hacking elections" and the chinese stealing "economic secrets", the first topic, pushed by infosec companies that also have political-economic interests, is being presented without any proof whatsoever, and the second topic clearly showing the level of paranoia in which US people live (IIRC, some espionage cases involving chinese citizens were proven in court to be false).
Perhaps US people and their govt should care more about their own people being extremely greedy and true psychopaths before judging foreign govts and nations...
> For someone who lives in a remote area and survives on hunting wild animals, being able to tell where game is situated, is more valuable than matching some geometrical figures or knowing capital city of a country he will never visit. Such tests that take into account language and cultural differences don't exist.
If you have studied engineering or simply maths, and like learning maths, you already have some background on geometry, algebra, etc. (and specially geometry/spatial stuff). At least the tests I've seen have some stuff that seems quite obviously been taking from maths... So, IMO, you can obviously score higher than someone that is, perhaps, as intelligent as you are, yet doesn't know or care about maths, or sorting things in certain way, or whatever.
While I don't really know much about the topic, IMO these tests ignore the fact that you can learn to solve certain problems, and yet "experts" still say they are about general intelligence. And by that logic, if you weren't to measure intelligence by a set of arbitrary characteristics, some of which can be learned in some specific social contexts... How would you even measure general intelligence? As you say, intelligence is relative to context. You can "learn" intelligence measured by these tests, or you can be "dumb" according to these tests, simply because you are ignorant of some things.
https://www.isglobal.org/en/healthisglobal/-/custom-blog-por... (I was going to submit this link some days ago, but I couldn't for some reason)