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RE: China, Statistics and The Genius Factor
China's education system will keep their development down.
Many genius's in China go undiscovered and never will be discovered because they need to be a genius in all subjects to go to university not just a couple.
So those math genius's with straight A's in math and physics who did poorly at running or history may still not get to go to Uni because they need to ace all subjects.
We miss out on a lot of smart people, too. Check out episode 4 of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast.
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/04-carlos-doesnt-remember
by "we" I guess you mean America.
And well, I never went to school in america but I do see the similarities.
USA has SAT's pretty much the same thing as China's final exam.. the difference is the fallout if its failed.
America and western nations, in general, give failure second chance. Which is truly admirable compared to China and other nations which base your future on your grades for a few select years of your life.
I will check out that link tonight. thanks for the link, probably wouldn't have found it otherwise.