• alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Check out this analysis of the data: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/pisa-scores-by-country

    I don’t know anything about the site and spent 30 seconds looking at the article, but it doesn’t present the data in a misleading way to create “always the same map” (international-community-1 international-community-2 ) by setting the major shift in perceived color just below the OECD group and then not coloring in countries like China and Vietnam that outperform the imperial core

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      9 months ago

      There’s definitely a bias there, and I’d argue that this makes it even more significant that they have to admit China is outperforming the west. Skipping Russia in particular is a bit funny given that Russia tends to perform really well at math and computer olympiads. When a country with a population of only 143 million consistently outperforms a billion people in the west, that’s a sign that the education system is working well.