I have tutored some students there... I think that counts?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Jared Koyier <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jaredkoyier@gmail.com">jaredkoyier@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Laban</div><div><br></div><div>just read the article, there is very little on it that alludes to your assertions, or maybe am missing something. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Have compared std 8 n Mauritius O level student or it&#39;s just a hunch? </div><div><br></div><div>I however agree that some research at useless<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<div><br>On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Laban Mwangi &lt;<a href="mailto:lmwangi@gmail.com" target="_blank">lmwangi@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Kenyan+pupils+top+in+Africa+/-/1056/1286490/-/c3v3tpz/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Kenyan+pupils+top+in+Africa+/-/1056/1286490/-/c3v3tpz/-/index.html</a><div>
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There are lies, damn lies and dreamed up numbers being passed as statistics. I think this is the archetypical case of :</div><div> - Bad sampling</div><div> - Guessing numbers based on other numbers that ought to be correlated but they aren&#39;t (HDI for example).</div>

<div><br></div><div>The average standard 8 student would beat the average O level student in Mauritius. </div><div>An average O level student there wouldn&#39;t know what to do with long division or long multiplication .</div>

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