{"id":285,"date":"2003-11-05T02:41:46","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T09:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2003-11-05T02:41:46","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T09:41:46","slug":"swish-nobels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2003\/11\/swish-nobels\/","title":{"rendered":"Swish Nobels"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Volokh Conspiracy has a spirited defence<\/a> going of Swiss creativity, for the most part successful, marred only by its dependence on dubious sources, namely the Swiss.<\/p>\n

There seems to be a widely parroted<\/a> perception that the Swiss have the most Nobel Prize winners on a per capita basis. But divide absolute totals<\/a> for nationalities with CIA population estimates<\/a> and you get 0.30 Swiss Nobel prize winners per 100,000 Swiss, whereas the Swedish manage 0.34 per 100,000 Swedes.<\/p>\n

A breakdown of the categories shows the Swiss are fatally weak in Nobels for literature, trailing Sweden by 5. Perhaps writing in Swedish sometimes has its advantages.<\/p>\n

(A note on my methodology: Data for nationalities seems to be up to date for 2002; neither the Swedes nor the Swiss won anything in 2003. And if it’s on the internet, it must be true, right?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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