According to some statistics major developed countries are spending money on sports programs and activities 10 times more than money spent on academic programs and research. Do you think this trend is good or bad? And why?
Sports are useful and help enhance many other aspects of healthy lifestyle. However, research is very important and help enhance community members lives. There should be a good balance to maintain reasonable distribution of resources.
The scientific programme is more good , but good health also need sport to preserve it.
Well when you have unbalance between expenditures on science and sports then people tends to favor sports more because it is financially covered and needs less responsibilities. But what is the cost in the future?
Sport is good for the brain and the body. Scientific programs are important for the advances and exploration of new ideas, innovation and many others matters,
so it depends on what the individual likes
َSports is needed to improve human health. However, for the advancement of societies and economies there should be more improvement in sciences and this has positive impact on sports and health of human beings. Otherwise what would be the benefit of neglecting research and improving sports? it will lead to less services, less innovations...etc
Dear Fiann you are analyzing he point from personal needs and I agree with you in that case people tends to favor technology on hardship of sports (i,e, buy a PS4 with NHL game is easier than going to arena to learn how to play this game). But, talking about academic,private and public institutes look for fast earning and easy money take as an example world cup 10s of billions of dollars are spent during a month of activities, but earning twice. Another is Formula races (1-3 levels) almost a trillion or more is spent in one season. Compare that to money expenditures on scientific research in similar period of time !!!
Some countries may be good at sports and some may be good at scientific research. Sports should be given priority and importance. Education is common in countries.
Pisipaty Srinivas Kishore I do not agree with you that sports should be given a priority as we can see nowadays that soccer, football, car races, tennis players get the highest wages to entertain people. While, researchers are the less paid people , and they are rarely supported for their researches or acknowledged for their achievements. The consequences are clear disasters due to unforeseen and unexpected diseases such as COVID-19. Nowadays the world is in chock and paralyzed because they cannot find a cure to this disease. This is due to the negligence of the importance of supporting scientific researches and scientists. What can sports provide as a solution in this dilemma?
Sports give good health, stamina and strength for human being. This will help the nation in the way needed. Intelligence and smart of way doing things can be got by developing and using scientific research. I feel both sports and scientific research are important and countries give preference upon priority and importance.
I'm an avid fan of European football. I also served as a referee for 30 years in a youth league. I promote physical and psychological fitness. At the professional levels, many athletes are way overpaid. Some make way much more than those of us who are medical/psychological clinicians.
I am also a former AF ER medic during Vietnam. I have the greatest admiration for health care professionals! So healthcare is way more vital than professional sports, inc. European football!
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