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> As a Canadian, the most educated nation in the world

> we do pretty much give diplomas to anything with a pulse

What's the metric for being the most educated nation? 'Cause ya know if it's "most diplomas per capita" or something and you freely give them out... we might want to rethink that lol.

Just something to think about I guess



> What's the metric for being the most educated nation?

The metric OECD uses.


What’s that metric?


Whatever they state the metric is, I imagine.


Interesting. Well I'll just assume it's based on number of degrees and that it's probably not an accurate assessment of how educated a country really is, since degree != education.


> Well I'll just assume it's based on number of degrees

Seems like a pretty fair assumption given that is the topic of discussion.

> since degree != education.

Quite true, but as everyone gains an education every minute of their lives, the most educated will be the oldest population. I'm not sure that's particularly useful information.




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