I had to reread both of these comments a couple of times, before it dawned on me why you disagreed - correctly. Since I am from the UK public school reads 'pos

I had to reread both of these comments a couple of times, before it dawned on me why you disagreed - correctly. Since I am from the UK public school reads 'posh elite school', not 'state school' so it had an opposite sense to my thinking. As to the alleged assumption, I'm not entirely sure to what degree I am making it. I am assuming of course the same conditions as the experiments I mentioned - which were, I am fairly sure, western society in general in the last few decades. I won't pass judgement as to whether this meets the condition of decent state schools for all. In all not too sure what the point of the original observation was, it could go in both directions. The figure of 50% only makes sense given some context.