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If they ever found one, they'd just rewrite the test with harder questions until people stopped getting it right, then write the headline Basic <subject> Test
by hugh3 16y ago
If they ever found one, they'd just rewrite the test with harder questions until people stopped getting it right, then write the headline
Basic <subject> Test Stumps Many Americans
because the alternative headline
Most Americans Do Reasonably Well on Basic <subject> Test
would never appear in the New York Times, and if it did it wouldn't be discussed here.
- michael_dorfman 16y agoI beg to differ. If the US ever got anywhere near the top of, say, the PISA study, you can be sure it would make the front page of the New York Times. It's not all schadenfreude, really.