Laban just read the article, there is very little on it that alludes to your assertions, or maybe am missing something. Have compared std 8 n Mauritius O level student or it's just a hunch? I however agree that some research at useless Sent from my iPad On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Laban Mwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Kenyan+pupils+top+in+Africa+/-/1056/1286490/-/c...
There are lies, damn lies and dreamed up numbers being passed as statistics. I think this is the archetypical case of : - Bad sampling - Guessing numbers based on other numbers that ought to be correlated but they aren't (HDI for example).
The average standard 8 student would beat the average O level student in Mauritius. An average O level student there wouldn't know what to do with long division or long multiplication . _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------
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