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Best at maths
Who is best at maths?
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Examples of Chinese maths:
50/50 chance of boy vs girl being born means 121.2 boys for every 100 girls. hooray for maths!
melamine is high in protein so add it to baby formula to make the protein stats come out better even though it is toxic. hooray for maths!
95% of all academic journal retractions are due to academic misconduct, corporate tampering or outright fraud. hooray for maths!
50/50 chance of boy vs girl being born means 121.2 boys for every 100 girls. hooray for maths!
melamine is high in protein so add it to baby formula to make the protein stats come out better even though it is toxic. hooray for maths!
95% of all academic journal retractions are due to academic misconduct, corporate tampering or outright fraud. hooray for maths!
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aka Chinesewaauw wrote:Singapore.
100% of academic fraud in China is detected, identified and punished thanks to China's high benchmarks of diligence and rigor. Hooray for China (^0^)DoomYoshi wrote:95% of all academic journal retractions are due to academic misconduct, corporate tampering or outright fraud. hooray for maths!
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That's not usually how academic fraud is detected. Most of the time it stems from non-reproducibility.mrswdk wrote:aka Chinesewaauw wrote:Singapore.
100% of academic fraud in China is detected, identified and punished thanks to China's high benchmarks of diligence and rigor. Hooray for China (^0^)DoomYoshi wrote:95% of all academic journal retractions are due to academic misconduct, corporate tampering or outright fraud. hooray for maths!
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And diligent Chinese efforts to test all academic work through reproduction ensures it is caught mucho rapidly.DoomYoshi wrote:That's not usually how academic fraud is detected. Most of the time it stems from non-reproducibility.mrswdk wrote:aka Chinesewaauw wrote:Singapore.
100% of academic fraud in China is detected, identified and punished thanks to China's high benchmarks of diligence and rigor. Hooray for China (^0^)DoomYoshi wrote:95% of all academic journal retractions are due to academic misconduct, corporate tampering or outright fraud. hooray for maths!
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Actually had to google "maths" as I've never seen it pluralized.
Guess its a British thing....no wonder. But British terms = Chinese terms?
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Guess its a British thing....no wonder. But British terms = Chinese terms?
*scratches sloping forehead*
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isn't there an annual competition for this? i seem to recall mets posting some 'murican math team(only 1 asian kid) being the victors.

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No, it's just a correct thing.KoolBak wrote:Actually had to google "maths" as I've never seen it pluralized.
Guess its a British thing
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Actually it's not quite that simple. Even in the safe womb it's not really safe. Sometimes it's bad for the boys and sometimes it's bad for the girls.DoomYoshi wrote:Examples of Chinese maths:
50/50 chance of boy vs girl being born
It’s Not 50-50: Why Your Chances Of Having A Boy Are Slightly Higher
Math is easy. Getting the data for the math; that's the part people often forget.

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China better at maths, U.S. better at math.
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Hey dipstick....mrswdk wrote:No, it's just a correct thing.KoolBak wrote:Actually had to google "maths" as I've never seen it pluralized.
Guess its a British thing
Math vs. maths. Math and maths are equally acceptable abbreviations of mathematics. The only difference is that math is preferred in the U.S. and Canada, and maths is preferred in the U.K., Australia, and most other English-speaking areas of the world. Neither abbreviation is correct or incorrect.
From the interwebz.....thus correct. Nyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Was USA, but we are at a tipping point where China is becoming better
https://www.inverse.com/article/34027-q ... influencer
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The OECD posts educational findings every year. Note the asterisk at the bottom. China can be considered well educated when ONLY taking into account the most developed regions and neglecting the retarded outback.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/pisa-worl ... ?r=US&IR=T
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waauw correctly points out that if you compare OECD countries to the parts of China that have an equivalent level of financial resources, China is using its resources to produce intelligent children while other OECD countries such as Belgium have given up on their youth and decided their only hope for the future is to instead pour their public resources into illegal state aid to their dying domestic industry and illegal bribes to attract overseas industrywaauw wrote:The OECD posts educational findings every year. Note the asterisk at the bottom. China can be considered well educated when ONLY taking into account the most developed regions and neglecting the retarded outback.
China's greatest asset: its well-educated workforce of the future
Belgium's greatest asset: barking on command
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Chinese-Americans.
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LoL....Love it, Duk.
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We Americans, of course.
Like theyz taught us in teh skool: there's only 3 types of people in this world - those who can count and those who can't.
Like theyz taught us in teh skool: there's only 3 types of people in this world - those who can count and those who can't.
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Keep believing in fairy tales dude.mrswdk wrote:waauw correctly points out that if you compare OECD countries to the parts of China that have an equivalent level of financial resources, China is using its resources to produce intelligent children while other OECD countries such as Belgium have given up on their youth and decided their only hope for the future is to instead pour their public resources into illegal state aid to their dying domestic industry and illegal bribes to attract overseas industrywaauw wrote:The OECD posts educational findings every year. Note the asterisk at the bottom. China can be considered well educated when ONLY taking into account the most developed regions and neglecting the retarded outback.
China's greatest asset: its well-educated workforce of the future
Belgium's greatest asset: barking on command
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Probably the US. Though not necessarily Americans. Part of the American success story is that it traditionally takes people from around the world. It's no surprise that the only woman to win the Fields medal was an Iranian who came to the US.
There are a lot of things wrong with the US educational system, but at its highest level it's decades ahead of China.
There are a lot of things wrong with the US educational system, but at its highest level it's decades ahead of China.
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That's right - when the facts are overwhelmingly stacked against you, simply accept you have been owned.waauw wrote:mrswdk wrote:waauw correctly points out that if you compare OECD countries to the parts of China that have an equivalent level of financial resources, China is using its resources to produce intelligent children while other OECD countries such as Belgium have given up on their youth and decided their only hope for the future is to instead pour their public resources into illegal state aid to their dying domestic industry and illegal bribes to attract overseas industrywaauw wrote:The OECD posts educational findings every year. Note the asterisk at the bottom. China can be considered well educated when ONLY taking into account the most developed regions and neglecting the retarded outback.
China's greatest asset: its well-educated workforce of the future
Belgium's greatest asset: barking on command



