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These stats are thrown off by a number of factors that it would be imprudent to get into here. Control for demographic samples similar to the other countries an
by core-questions 8y ago
These stats are thrown off by a number of factors that it would be imprudent to get into here. Control for demographic samples similar to the other countries and you'll see a very different picture.
- NeoBasilisk 8y agoSo you're saying poor people in the US don't matter because they bring down the average?
- anoncoward111 8y agoThey matter, but they don't negate the statistical extremes. For what it's worth, I didn't go to any elite universities and I make less than 35,000 per year, so I don't have a horse in this race.
- core-questions 8y agoI don't think that's what I'm saying. Of course they _matter_, as much as any of us do anyhow. What I'm saying is that if you actually compare people with similar demographically-expected IQ and socioeconomic situations, Americans stack up fine. It's the extenuating circumstances that drag the overall averages down. All that really means is that overall averages across 300 million people aren't that useful.
- noobermin 8y agoSingapore is a multi-racial country, and it does better than the US on PISA. So is Canada and it does better. And if your point isn't race or culture, but of economic disparity, that is sort of my point.
- core-questions 8y ago"Multi-racial" is not a homogenous term you can just throw around as though it means the same thing everywhere.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoSingapore is full of Chinese people. Now compare Singapore Malays to Chinese-Americans.