On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:37 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> If you actually click on the study and look at the final results
> tabulation, you'll see very little real difference between any two
> countries. Other than Japan and Finland at the top and the couple at the
> bottom, there is this vast middle of nearly identical results.
>
> This is like claiming that because the U.S. achieved a 7.4 on a 10 point
> scale while some other countries achieved a 7.6 (and the rest 7.3's and
> 7.2's) we're somehow deficient. Roll the die again with another set of
> tested adults and watch the U.S. get a 7.7 and those 7.6's drop to 7.5's.
>
> This is propaganda pure and simple. As for actual, scientific results it
> does nothing but repeat what we've known for 30 years going - very
> homogenous societies (Japan and Finland) do a better job of educating their
> citizens. The rest of the diversified world does an identical, mostly
> adequate job.
>
> The problem isn't a skills gap, it's a jobs gap - there are no jobs.
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/us/us-adults-fare-poorly-in-a-study-of-skills.html
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