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(Classic Episode) Tyler Cowen: The Dark Side of Talent, Sorting and Institutions

From the New World

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Is There a Clustering Effect?

92% of the national computer science finalists in I think 2018 were from basically 0.00001% of Canada's landmass. And yeah, this is this is incredibly fascinating to me. Do you have any hypotheses on on why that is? Well, it's more centered in Ontario than I would have expected. The rest of Canada is hardly an intellectual wasteland. It could just be partly an artificial clustering effect. But I would have thought well, there'll be one or two from outside of Alberta or something. We have one winner in Vancouver of a different nature. Really no applications from Quebec that I can think of. That makes it so that there's a kind of innovation that's

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