Angel Gurria, the secretary-general of the OECD, said in the latest report's preface that the performance of the four Chinese regions was impressive, as their income levels were below the OECD average.
"These four provinces/municipalities in eastern China are far from representing China as a whole, but the size of each of them compares to that of a typical OECD country, and their combined populations amount to over 180 million," he said.
I read an interesting theory recently that the high test scores of Asian students don’t seem to be indicative of performance in adult life. In other words, they might be smart, and good at taking tests, when they’re kids and teens, but lose that edge as they pass into college and on into adulthood, where western Europeans outpace them in things like innovation and raw cognitive power.
So while eastern Asian kids might top the scores on standardized tests, it’s not the end-all for their performance in the real world. The ethnic group that has shown the highest real-world, cutting-edge performance is currently under siege as being all around terrible for civilization and the planet in general.
The test is administered to a sample of students
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment#Sampling
Do you think that the Chinese sample is a totally random representative sample?
Pop Quiz:
Besides being self-made billionaires, what do Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and Mark Zuckerberg have in common?
Answer: They are all college dropouts.
Chinese students rank really high here too. I wonder why...
Wealth and high test scores correlate. Not news.
If they’re good little robots they’ll get to go to an American University where the beer is cold and the girls are hot.
Yes, but how do they rank in important things like racial and gender diversity and LGBTQI sensitivity and acceptance? (/sarc)
They are genetically more intelligent, study hard, don’t study 57 genders & privilege & have good family values. The future is theirs.
Wealthy parents in China try to get their children out of communist China to any western country they can, because they love them. It’s also why Hong Kong is putting up such a fight. They don’t want to end up in communist China either.
China does awful poor in Science.
Is global warming real?
Are electric cars superior?
Is wind power better than oil?
Should organs be harvested?
China students are real ignorant dopes !
Do not believe the “tests”.