Sujet : Re: International Physics Olympiad :-)
De : physfitfreak (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Physfitfreak)
Groupes : sci.physicsDate : 23. Aug 2024, 10:10:22
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The country (or team) scores show Iran made it to 6th position which if you put the population factor into it is pretty good. Romania again did great right below Russia. I wished a second list was given which would have the population of that country factored into it. The 5 best students of a billion people country is of course different from 5 best of an 80 million people country.
But if a low population 5 best students does a better job than a high population 5 best, then it would point to better education system in the lower population country.
So some conclusions can be drawn even when a second list with population factored in is not given. For instance in the scores below, China has half a billion people fewer than India, but all 5 students got gold, while Indians got 2 golds and 3 silvers. Iran with only 80 million population got 1 gold and 4 silvers, a difference of just one kid losing the gold to a silver compared to India with a more than 1.5 billion people. So definitely although Iran got rank 6 and India rank 4, Iranians in fact did better than Indians. Same goes for Romania which is doing really great, perhaps even better than all the other countries if you factore in the population.
India, with highest populaiton in the world (1.5 billion) should statistically be always at the top of this list. But it has never been there.
Anyway, not a bad idea if somebody here use this list and the population of the countries involved to get a more realistic result that is shown below. I bet you'll find interesting surprises in it :-) Just off the back of my head, I say Romania is really at the top. Not China. They did great in the past years too.
In UTD, a physics professor that conducted research in quantum electronics married a hot tall (but not taller than him) m,Romanian physicist woman, and back then Romania was a communist country. Once I and another friend (a student of his) were talking to him and I asked him whether he was a bit uneasy about secrets involved in his research leak to Romanians. He had no problem answering that. He said, "Hah.. it is me who wish to obtain some Romanian ideas, not vice versa!" :-))) He did invent a few nice ways and methods. One of them was a way to create diamond using lasers, which saw immediate use in Japanese computer devices. He sued unsuccessfully for using his invention without his permission. The damning factor was the fact that the work had been done with federal government money, so it didn't belong to him.
The country score (team scores) is as follows:
G stands for Gold
S for Silver
B for Bronze
HM for Honorable Mention
Country Rank G S B HM
People's Republic of China 1 5 0 0 0
Russia 2 4 1 0 0
Romania 3 3 2 0 0
India 4 2 3 0 0
Vietnam 4 2 3 0 0
Islamic Republic of Iran 6 1 4 0 0
Belarus 7 1 1 3 0
Kazakhstan 8 0 4 1 0
Syria 9 0 2 3 0
Türkiye 10 0 2 2 1
Georgia 11 0 2 2 0
Bulgaria 12 0 1 4 0
Mongolia 12 0 1 4 0
Serbia 12 0 1 4 0
Saudi Arabia 15 0 1 3 1
Croatia 16 0 1 2 1
North Macedonia 16 0 1 2 1
Azerbaijan 18 0 1 1 2
Bangladesh 18 0 1 1 2
Indonesia 18 0 1 1 2
Cyprus 21 0 1 0 0
Republic of Korea 21 0 1 0 0
Thailand 23 0 0 4 1
Armenia 24 0 0 3 2
Pakistan 25 0 0 3 1
Bosnia and Herzegovina 26 0 0 2 1
Moldova 27 0 0 1 3
Malaysia 28 0 0 1 2
Mexico 28 0 0 1 2
Uzbekistan 28 0 0 1 2
Kyrgyzstan 31 0 0 1 1
Nepal 31 0 0 1 1
Tajikistan 31 0 0 1 1
United Arab Emirates 34 0 0 1 0
Colombia 35 0 0 0 1
Montenegro 35 0 0 0 1