Guess I'm late to the comments game but I agree with you the title is a hasty and poor conclusion. As you have pointed out, the first problem was that the resul

Guess I'm late to the comments game but I agree with you the title is a hasty and poor conclusion. As you have pointed out, the first problem was that the results are not normalized. Second, they have not studied what it is that the parents helped the kids. Maybe homework in some countries are more demanding (do those countries use a nationwide set of textbooks?). Who knows. The third, I suspect that the time spent on helping children with homework has more to do with how education is viewed culturally than income. I can imagine if you ask the question of the percentage of income the parents spend on their children's education, the ranking is going to be very similar as well. Asian people and countries seem to devote a lot of time, and money, and they tend to steer to their kids more than other groups. That is even a stereotype now. I bet in America, rich Asian parents also spend more time to help their kids with homework. It just happens to be that Asian countries tend to be poorer so they float on top. You can actually already see it in Singapore, which is not a poor country, being well above the average in terms of time parents spent helping kids.