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I've seen various sources claim the US is behind other nations in STEM fields, particularly math, at the primary and secondary levels.

e.g. https://www.nms.org/AboutNMSI/TheSTEMCrisis/STEMEducationSta...

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These disparities disappear once you account for certain key demographic differences. In modern service-economy societies, average educational attainment is unimportant. What matters is how many positive-marginal-product people you have, and the US still produces them in spades.

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