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

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On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Laban Mwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:

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 .

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