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The editorial ignores race, but the U.S. has a different racial mix than many of the countries it is compared with, and racial disparities in academic achieveme
by Bostonian 7y ago
The editorial ignores race, but the U.S. has a different racial mix than many of the countries it is compared with, and racial disparities in academic achievement are large and intractable. From Steve Sailer https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-scores-usa-usa/ https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-new-2018-pisa-school-test-sco... :
"[E]ach race within the U.S. [does well] compared to the rest of the world.
For example, the mean score on the three parts of the test — reading, math, and science — for U.S. Asians was 549, which would make them the third highest scoring place in the world, behind only the utopian city-state of Singapore and four rich cities in mainland China. (Scores are on an SAT-like 200 to 800 scale with 500 supposed to be the rich, or OECD, country mean, although the OECD mean was 488.)
At 521, U.S. whites outscored all countries founded by whites (light blue bars) except Estonia. American whites edged Japan and South Korea by one point, which isn’t shabby."