On May 5, 6:51 pm, israeliteknight <israelitekni...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The US did very poorly in both math and science on the TIMSS survey in
> 1995, scoring 492 in math [117 points lower than Singa****e] and 513 in
> science [67 points lower than Singa****e]. In the 2003 survey, we
> scored 12 points higher in math than in 1995, and 15 points higher in
> science, which was still 101 and 51 points respectively lower than
> Singa****e.
And in places like Indonesia and Malaysia --- they don't even dare to
take the test. Why? Because the majority would flunk the test.
> On the surface, this seems like very poor performance, but when our
> math score is broken down by race, it's precisely the score we'd
> expect. If we assume the 13% who took the test who were blacks scored
> in the range of Botswana (366), the 74% who were Whites scored in the
> range of the Netherlands (536), the 7% who were Hispanics scored in
> the range of Chile (387), the 4% who were Asians scored in range of
> China (586), and the 2% who were jews scored in the range of Israel
> (440), the aggregate score is 504, exactly the score we received on
> TIMSS math:
>
> math blacks Whites Hispanic Asian jews
> Botswana Nlands Chile China Israel
> Score 366 536 387 586 440
> US 13% 74.00% 7% 4% 2%
When you talk about "Asian", you gotta be careful. Because among the
"Asian" you got a lot of "those things" as well.
It would be nice if someone can break down the "Asian" score by race,
not by country, but by race.
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