You don't know whether i do come from Turkey or not. These two flags on the left side might act as deception to mask my true nationality, including the avatar. I do speak Turkish, but i wasn't born there nor have ever lived there. I'm from a scandinavian country, only attended scandinavian schools from primary to uni. The accomplishments and ongoing projects were mentioned to demonstrate Turkey is not on bare feet, things do happen. And you better keep in mind the number of youth, educated in higher institutions, regardless of their current academic level compared to that of European institutions, are considerably higher than major European countries. Undeniably Turkey has a long road to tread if it is to attain those goals worded by me, but never underestimate human potential and curiosity. In short amount of time, humans are capable of wonders or great disasters, mostly disasters though.
And i enjoyed this conversation, good to meet a new interesting character on PDF.
You are still a Turk.
Your origins are in the region I described.
You did not originate from Scandinavia. You are not a native of Scandinavia.
This is perfectly normal too.
Europeans in Australia or America are not native to those regions either. They are natives of Europe.
Natives of certain regions display certain inherent characteristics.
Nevertheless, all this discussion aside, can you provide an estimate: what is the total number of FTE R&D personnel involved in Turkey? And what is the same figure for the entire Muslim world?
Compare that figure with one country like China, America or the European Union.
Maybe compare that number with Japan or Russia.
Where does the Muslim world stand?
Muslims need to learn where they stand, so comparisons have to be made.
Without these bases for comparison, no adequate policy recommendations can ever be made and implemented for progress.
My suspicion is that given the current demographic groups comprising Muslims, it would be hard very hard indeed, to find 4 million or more high IQ "super geniuses" (let's say, scoring at least 136, as a bare minimum).
It's better to spread the message of Islam to the natives of colder regions, like European natives and mongoloid oriental natives like the Chinoise, Japanese, Koreans.
Then, maybe by the next decade or two, the Muslim world can have a critical mass of high IQ 'super geniuses' who can make Monsieur Erdogan's ambitions into reality.
I am looking at some statistics like this. You see the number of FTE R&D personnel in Turkey was only around 90,000 in the year 2013, much much less than a similar sized European country, let alone the European Union's world leading 1.7 million.
Can you find the number of FTE R&D personnel figure for whole of the Muslim world?
