[Skunkworks] Kenyan pupils second to Mauritius in Maths?

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 .