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Posted by JayMan on Wed Jan 4 22:15:51 2012, in response to OP-ED: What Americans keep ignoring about Finland's school success, posted by Concourse Express on Wed Jan 4 16:52:52 2012. What Americans keep ignoring about Finland's school success?IQ Here's the map again (clickable):  Finland's IQ is among the top in Europe, and in reality, as we see here (clickable image):  ...American Whites outperform Whites in all other countries except Finland. As Richard Lynn excellently points out, tests like the PISA and the SAT (particularly the older SAT) are really IQ tests, and national differences in performance reflect national differences in IQ. Indeed, it is possible that Finland's high score on the PISA, slightly higher than one would expect based on their IQ alone, is because they don't have private schools siphoning off some of their highest scorers (don't know if private school students in the U.S. and other countries take the PISA). This is a complete load of tired old HBD blind rubbish that needs to stop being recycled. For a second I thought that perhaps you posted it just to get me going. The problem facing education in America isn't the ethnic diversity of the population but the economic inequality of society, and this is precisely the problem that Finnish education reform addressed. More equity at home might just be what America needs to be more competitive abroad. Sorry, I'm afraid that with regard to test scores as well as "economic inequalities," that ethnic diversity is exactly the problem. No amount of wishful thinking will alter that fact. |
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