Well one of the areas that America has failed to invest in across the board, is in education so no wonder their analytical skils aren't top notch. Yes, I do realise America has some very good universities but education across the majority is not great.
I remember talking to an American exchange student in Nairobi once, she had hard time understanding/accepting her fellow students views, which were essentially that she was under educated in comparison to the locals and this was the cause of her relative underperfromance. "How could that be, America is the best" rah rah type stuff.
